Google Street View came out in several Canadian cities today, including Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Street View offers a 360-degree view of any address, so it’s perfect for both the directionally disinclined and, well, maybe for stalkers. Want check out your ex’s place without doing the old drive-by? Well madame, you have found your tool.

The Canadian government has raised the issue of Street View conflicting with citizens’ privacy, but Google has blurred out faces, license plates and house numbers for this purpose. Nonetheless, there are urban legends about Street View having ruined lives, for example when a husband spotted the wrong car in his driveway when he looked up his address and realized his wife was cheating. I think it’s official: we’re living in a strange, new Orwellian world. The images on Street View have no date print and are not current, however, which tones down some of the creepiness of the application. So you can’t, for example, use it to see if your boyfriend is really just studying at home tonight, but the good news is, you could stumble upon him kissing another girl on the street in the spring. Just kidding. Don’t start looking.

The technology behind Street View is fascinating: Google cars equipped with nine directional cameras on their roofs captured the images by driving down almost every street in the city, and there are Google tricycles for those hard-to-reach locations. Seriously. Google has said that its ultimate goal is to provide street views of the entire world, but does not disclose in advance on what dates new cities will be added.

You can use Street View to scope out where you’re headed and where you’ve been, and who knows, you may already be captured on the street somewhere in the city, so be sure to keep a Where’s Waldo eye out for yourself! You’re probably going to spend at least a good half hour on Google Street View today, so tell us, what’s the strangest thing you’ve found on it so far? Mine: a man sunbathing in tighty whities.