How to blur your home on Google Street View (and why you should)
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A little privacy goes a long way.
  • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    4 days ago

    Nick Fuentes did this last year when he assaulted a woman who knocked on his door.

    Of course, it’s not hard to figure out what building is in-between numbers 1824 and 1828…

  • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    4 days ago

    Does Google require proof you live there and give that info to the cookie monster that powers its profits??

    Am I too paranoid at this point?

  • Vari@lemm.eeEnglish
    151·
    4 days ago

    Feels like the Streisand effect would apply

    • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Exactly. Everyone in Scotland knows what town former prime minister Gordon Brown lives in. Thanks to Google Maps, we know the exact address. It’s the only blurred-out house.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      163·
      4 days ago

      It’s also just dumb that imagery taken from a street isn’t doing anything privacy-invading or illegal yet they still feel the need to coddle paranoid NIMBYs. Street View can sometimes be useful for OSM, since you might’ve been there but forgotten to document something, are too far away, etc. Street View as a concept works to the public’s benefit, although Google owning it and it being proprietary isn’t good. I can see this removal feature being a good thing by probably one out of every thousand times it’s actually used, namely in the case that you have some kind of stalker (even then, though, satellite view 99% of the time would give you a concerning amount of info compared to Street View).

      • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        52·
        4 days ago

        A scammer will use an image of your house for a rental ad. They will have a locksmith change the locks and rent the house out to an unsuspecting family. Then you have to evict them to get your house back.

      • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        Let’s not forget anyone can fly light weight quadcopters and planes with cameras on them within the boundaries of private property. Most aviation authorities around the world are in control of air space, and that air space in most countries starts a micron above the ground. And therefore it’s perfectly legal for anyone to fly something within the boundaries of your property. Now you could get into trouble for being a peeping Tom, aggravation, etc depending on the circumstance. But nothing can be done if someone was to do a quick fly over.

        In my opinion blurring out street view only protects you against the ‘script kiddies’ of the stalking/spying world.

        One thing about blurring in street view. Once it’s done, it cannot be undone. So I’d have consideration for others before going ahead with making a request.