"Uh uh, Google." (Photo: Blogger)

Sassy hand-gesturer and potentially technophobic New York Senator Charles Schumer has some serious concerns about the privacy of New Yorkers' backyards. In a letter to Google and Apple published yesterday on his website, the Senator concern-trolled the tech companies over their 3D map technology, which uses fly-over cameras to construct the images.

“Barbequing or sunbathing in your backyard shouldn’t be a public event," said Senator Schumer in a statement while presumably wearing a "Kiss the cook!" apron and brandishing a six-pack of hot dogs. "People should be free from the worry of some high-tech peeping Tom technology violating one’s privacy when in your own home."

In order to protect the privacy of New York's heavy-voting sunbather constituency, Senator Schumer proposed the following provisions on Google and Apple's mapping techniques:

1)      Provide notification to communities as to when you plan to conduct mapping

2)      Automatically blur photos of individuals who are captured, and give property owners the right to opt-out of having the company map their homes

3)      Put protocols in place with law enforcement and local municipalities to ensure that sensitive infrastructure details are blurred from published maps