Well, Privacy International's Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies has got fur and feathers flying (as the nondescript kitten might say).

Hopefully we're all aware that any sense of online privacy is a delusion at best. Although I've admitted to being a little freaked out by Google Street View myself, I happen to think that the google might pose less privacy risk than other internet companies precisely because of the vigilante-levels of be-careful-what-you-tell-google conventional wisdom buzzing around the web. On the other hand, alt search engines's challenge to spend a day without google is so terrifying I can't even consider it, which might outweigh the previous point.

At any rate, I'm definitely not giving google my credit card number. They already know everything else!

Luckily, our friends at The Daily Show anticipated the Privacy International report after the release of Street View (I think Comedy Central's site is telling me this video will expire sometime in early July—so hurry up and watch it!):

update: Yup, they took the video down, so I've removed the embed code. Jerks!