As previously mentioned, the Pwn2Own hacking contest, also featured events to target the ever popular smartphones.
Surprisingly they all managed to survive and not be compromised.  This may be for various reasons, such as the lack of processing power of the phones when it comes to exploitation, or the fact that not much time has spent previously around targeting these devices.

All I know is that it doesnt mean we should think there is nothing to worry about, as the use becomes more popular, and data more valuable trends will change.

I recently got a new smartphone, and I dont think it will be long until AV products become more popular on these platforms, so watch this space.

So Google have now released the long discussed Street View, and already people are complaining and asking to have images removed.
I guess if you have been caught slacking off work, or having lunch with your mistress you might have something to be worried about, but it general I dont think its a mega issue or invasion of privacy.

The images are not real time, as far as I am aware there is not meta data linking the image to individual, registration information or anything else thats not in the public domain. I do wonder if these same people complaining, are the ones with hundreds of pictures on Flickr and such like.

Personally until I learn anymore, I am not to worried about this myself. Granted such as images on Google Earth, so images of government building and such like might need to be removed or censored, not because of the content as such, as anyone could go take a picture, but more to remove the ease of access to such images. I can see the plus sides, be a good idea to get the idea of what a street looks like that your are planning to navigate to.

I have not seen myself on Street View maps yet, but maybe you will be lucky 🙂