Let's go back to Google Street View: everything was kept in the United States. In view of that fact, there's an enormous amount of private information that can be stored. No one has given any informed consent for it to be transmitted to the United States and for it to be the American act—the US Patriot Act, among others—that applies. There hasn't been any consent, and Big Brother is there.
On October 22nd, 2009. See this statement in context.