Google Street View and Paul McCartney's hugely high wall

I’ve always wondered what was over Paul McCartney’s fence. It is an open secret in the neighbourhood which is his house. He has the sort of gates that bring a little bit of the Home Counties to London and a wall so high you can’t walk past and cast a casual glance into the front window. Now, thanks to Google Street View, not only have I hurdled the barricades to peek, I have also read the number plates of the cars parked behind his forbidding gates. This is typical of Google: launch first and let people complain after. Already privacy campaigners have made a formal complaint about the controversial new mapping service. I have to admit that it’s more than a little addictive. [more]