The by-times-charmingly-innocent Cory Doctorow points out a new fun use of Google maps - especially when combined with Google's Orwellian asset Keyhole - without reference to the fact that it is another link in the new fence being formed around you. Now, apparently, we can be tracked by neighbourhood population. How long before social security number cross-reference? When does it become a matrix of information which can identify an individual by itself or when combined with other public data bases?

You know, by the time they are done with this, Big Brother may just be your big brother.