[macrolime]

What is a public area? Anywhere that can be viewed from any spot accessible to the public? So the only non-public areas are rooms with no windows?

If I go to Google Street view I can see a lot of details from inside my house, same with the houses of my neighbors.

If you stop and stare inside someone's window in public, people will notice and wonder what the hell you're doing. Nothing's stopping anyone from staring through people's windows through Google Street view though.

[brokenmachine]

In most "free" countries, people are free to stand outside your house on the public street and look towards your house as much as they want. They can even take photos.

So you can wonder what the hell they're doing as much as you want, because what you're suggesting is perfectly legal.