Lithuanian authorities are using Google Maps Street View to comb through the country's larger cities for signs of residents not paying their taxes. The Associated Press reports that tax inspectors are searching Street View imagery for undocumented property and construction that might signal a tax violation. Over just a few months, the agency found a number of buildings that hadn't been registered, and managed to identify 100 homeowners and 30 construction companies as possible tax dodgers — at least one of which owes around $91,000.

The tax inspectorate believes that this type of surveillance doesn't violate Lithuanian citizens' civil rights. "We conducted precise legal consultations. There are no rights violations," an agency spokesperson told the AP. A lawyer at the Human Rights Monitoring Institute in the Lithuanian capitol agrees, but he suggests that if the authorities had not also taken physical inspections, that there may have been cause for concern. He told the AP, "If they were using it as the sole tool, then it could possibly be qualified as a violation. But in this case it's just using a modern resource."