Street View, available through Google Maps, is an entirely new threat to our families and children – predators easily could misuse Street View to allow anyone to view our home and family, without any privacy restrictions.

Street View, gives online users street-level images of addresses. The technology allows online users to view zoomed-in, high-resolution pictures of their home, parks, schools, and in some cases, even children playing outside.

While this technology allows you to find your own home on a map, it also allows anyone else to view an unprecedented amount of information about you and your family without your permission, using street level photographs of hundreds of thousands of homes, schools, parks and playgrounds from around the country.

Street View could make it simple, for example, for anyone to map the most likely route your child walks to school, calculate the distance between your front door and the school bus stop, view images of the different entrances to community parks, and even find the location of your families’ bedroom windows.

By increasing awareness and educating parents and communities on the application and restriction options, Stop Internet Predators seeks to limit the potential for child predators to abuse Street View technology to prey on children.