Across Parramatta, the west, Sydney, NSW and Australia, special camera-mounted Google cars have captured people going about their daily life.

Dubbed Street View, the new add-on to Google Maps provides viewers with an opportunity to see streets on the internet as if they were walking or driving in them.

After its Australian launch this week, privacy campaigners suggested the function invaded people's privacy and that they were not given the choice whether their houses would be shown or not.

Others dismiss the claims, saying the picture is no different from anyone driving their car down a street.

Associate Professor Dan Svantesson from the Australian Privacy Foundation said he's not opposed to Street View, branding it an exciting tool where most of the images are harmless.

"Google must make it very easy for people to report privacy invasions," he said.

"There's been concern about Google capturing images on private roads which they clearly should not be doing and we've seen reports of that happening.

"The image quality should not be improved – if anything they could downgrade the image quality."

Google Australia’s product manager Andrew Foster said Australia was one of the first countries Street View has been brought to.

He said the online tool had been discussed with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, and would blur faces and remove images if people request it.

"A lot of remote and regional Australia is now available to explore virtually - Tom Price, Gundagai, Longreach, Esperance, and so much more," he said.

"Street View provides an added experience by enabling users to see street-level panoramas of Australia's public roads, including dusty outback highways, tropical northern beach roads and major city arteries."

Associate Professor Michael Darcy from the University of Western Sydney’s Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre said as the digital divide decreases, many of western Sydney’s residents would be able to use the tool as well.