And with Google Street View, thieves can screen prospects from the comfort of their own hovels.

On the plus side, I wouldn't mind all those cell phones reporting their location to Google while in a moving car on main traffic arteries. < That would lend itself to near real time traffic reports via a Google Map layer.

I know some may think my earlier Orwellian remark may not apply because Google is a private company and it's "do no evil" philosophy does focus on the end user...

... but, we should all remember how easy it was for the US Government to commandeer AT&T and other Telecoms routers and servers in the name of National security.

I'll tell you what, if I was an "evil doer", I wouldn't want a cell phone closer to me than the blast range of an incoming missile.