Google maps has a picture of my house from about 10 years before i moved in and it looks exactly like all the other houses around me…
…but i should give google personal information and utility bills to get it taken down?
Nah.
Right?
don’t tell google where you live
If you use Maps, they already know.
Probably if you have a smartphone they know.
Your DMV license is researchable so ?
i don’t use it much
So they know
they guess.
Feeding Google more data is always a good idea…
The house we moved to last year had been blurred by the previous owners. It’s permanent, so we don’t get a choice about it.
Tbh this is the only house I’ve ever looked up that was blurred.
I get why, but it’s also inconvenient. So many of us (in my area, anyway) look up the house on Streetview when going to an unfamiliar address, to help orient ourselves.
It’s not something I lose sleep over. But given the option, in a neighbourhood with no other blurred houses, in a low-crime, lost surveillance area, I don’t think I would have chosen to blur the house.
Why would I do this? It’s just a door with a number on it.
Yea. I don’t really care either. I don’t see the point in making the effort. Unless I am missing something.
All it seems like is an easy way for google to link your address to the rest of your data.
You can confirm a person’s residence by the cars in front of their house. Cross reference objects in the background and if not blurred objects and features in their front yard. Blurring doesn’t totally stop this as I’ve tracked down people’s houses from satellite imagery and Facebook pictures to confirm where they lived.
Do no do this, it will require more info to Google and make your house stick out like a sore thumb.
So now they know where you live…
Lol as i am going to send google extra information to get a bit more privacy back. Thata stupid
😅. Okay, story time:
When StreetView was introduced this dominated public debate in Germany for weeks. It was all the rage, “how dare they to photograph everything?”
One official even suggested “it’s awesome, police can now patrol the streets from an office chair”, because that is how much of a backwater country Germany is digitally.
Anyway, people saw immediately all the crime which all the criminal criminals would do with this tool (which tells you something about the state of mind of the “righteous folks”). Anyway, half the country was blurred, because everybody knew about it. And it is the reason, why StreetView is so patchy in Germany (or at least was for the longest time, didn’t check much in recent years) compared to the neighbouring states, 'cause Google pretty much said “Fuck these fucking Germans with their fucking shit”.
Apple came around some years later with their version, nobody cared anymore 😅
Damn, they’ll have to go all the way to zillow if they wanna case your place, huh?
Anyone going to try this with the Whitehouse?
how hard would it be to just do this automatically for every address? to bring down the street view machine for good?
I’m not suggesting anyone do this, I am just curious how it would work or how it would play out.
What if they update the photos every 6 months or so? Would the photo then be unblurred and you gaave google your address for nothing? Or do they blur 3D coordinates?
“Google says the document is deleted after 60 days.”
Lol. They absolutely keep all of the data.
“Just give us your name, address, and more, and we’ll stop violating your privacy (on the surface). Training AI? Well, obviously. Selling to data brokers? I mean, why wouldn’t we? We’ll delete the document after we’ve stored all the details in our database, of course.”
Yeah, doesn’t say anything about copies being destroyed.
Now that I think about it, is that a threat? Is google going to come to my house and set all my documents on fire in 60 days?
The two counter arguments to this are:
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You are giving more personal data to google to prove you live at that address.
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A blurred house on street view makes you stand out and can make burglars think you are some rich guy with valuable stuff in their house.
Yeah, I was about to say, I’m not falling for this “privacy” service lol. Nice try, Google.
Yeah this is exactly like the DNR (Do Not Track Request) built into browsers. It was off by default. Turning it on was only done by privacy focused individuals. But it made you significantly more trackable because almost nobody turns it on, your browser becomes a lot more unique.
Thankfully browsers stopped supporting it. But this is the same thing. Very few people will use it, so that it’ll make you stand out instead of helping you.
I read somewhere once that some houses are blurred after grisly murders occur there, among other heinous crimes like arson and rapes. That’s what I usually think of wwhen I see a blurred house. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a mansion blurred either.
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