Google Opens A Window Into Your Personal Life

I just read some news articles questioning the newly added "Street View" to Google Maps. Some people are asking whether it makes public what most people would consider private. Now what do I have to say about this? First, the pictures are taken in public, so everything in them is public, not private. People are whining that the pictures let you see into people's houses, and people's actions on the streets, and other "private" things, such as license plate numbers, etc. Now if you don't want people looking at this stuff you can request that it be taken off by simply asking Google. Or you could simply close your blinds, or not do stupid things in public, like pick your nose. Who cares if they are pictures. I could walk through San Francisco or New York and see into people's houses or people picking there noses or scratching their butts. Are pictures really worse than in person? As for the license plates, those have never been public. I could just as soon pick a license plate number while driving and see who it belongs to as I could pick a license plate from a picture and do the same; anyone could. People don't really ever think about what really is public, until it is made "public". What's your take on this so-called "invasion of privacy"?