You realize that in Germany for example, most house are hidden in google street view ?
There is a similar debate about being photographed while in public: the fact that I'm walking in the street shouldn't allow anybody to take pictures of me, just because it has been decided that doing so would remove any "expectation of privacy".
That's my image. That's my house. If I don't want people to take picture of it and put in on the internet, it's my choice. And I don't think it is that unreasonable to want to control it.
I don't care about cityscape where the picture is taken from afar, where you can not discern any details of my house. But I don't want strangers to be able to see for example if I have dogs just by googling my address on internet.
In a world where free public spaces are becoming increasingly rare, we should strive to retain and protect them rather than make everything private and controlled.
That being said, I do think the privacy of what is clearly and truly in the private sphere should be protected strongly – such as what goes on inside your house outside of what is directly and easily visible to the street. But there need to be just as strong rights to enjoy the virtues of the public sphere to counterbalance the strong protection of the private sphere.
by empowering a private company to profit from what this person considers to be private?