The Web has been abuzz with Google's new Street View function which pairs up with its Google Maps feature to show you what it is like to be on a street whose address you enter. So, you can look up your favorite bakery in SF, find the street, zoom in from satellite above and now, look right at its awning and that succulent chocolate cake in the window.

What I have just described is the innocuous use of this feature.

People have instead been looking for the craziest, funniest, strangest images they could find which were catalogued by the Google team, which covered miles and miles of streets around New York, San Francisco and other big cities.

Some claim to have found E.T.

But perhaps most unnerving to Stanford students are the images of our own campus. The Wired Magazine blog sought out submissions for the "best inadvertent" shots people could find.

This photo looks like it was taken right outside of Twain, between Stern and Wilbur.

Just by "walking" down Escondido Road you can find this photo of two girls sunbathing in front of Manzanita.

While I think the technology is cool (they use an 11-lens camera, the Dodeca 2360), I can see why privacy wonks are worried. If I were one of those girls, I probably wouldn't be too happy that anyone with an internet connection could see me in my bathing suit when all I wanted to do was get some sun on a lazy afternoon. And what recourse do they have? Call up Google and kindly ask that a new picture of the lawn in front of Kimball be taken?