Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, is concerned that Google’s new Street View feature could break Canada’s privacy laws.

Street View is a feature in Google Maps that displays street-level photographs for various cities in the US. It allows you to see what those cities look like “on the ground.” Unfortunately, the photographs in Street View include candid images of people who happened to be in the street while Google’s photographers were taking pictures.

Street View isn’t currently available for Canadian cities, but that could change. In her letter to Google, Stoddart wrote, “I am concerned that, if the Street View application were deployed in Canada, it might not comply with our federal privacy legislation. In particular, it does not appear to meet the basic requirements of knowledge, consent, and limited collection and use as set out in the legislation.”

Stoddart’s letter also points out that Immersive Media, the company that supplied Google with the photos it uses for Street View, has already collected similar photos for six major Canadian cities, including Vancouver.