Google Street View. How do you get your house removed ?

[nick heppinstall]

As subject. Cant see any links etc on the page.

[Slinky]

Why?

[onlynik]

nick heppinstall said:

As subject. Cant see any links etc on the page.

Look harder.

Bottom left hand corner, "Report a Concern"

lets you report a concern.

[thehawk]

Why? Not sure you have any legal right to get it removed.

[Eric Mc]

You may not have a legal right, but you can always ask. Google have obviously miscalculated on this one and are a bit anxious over the negative publicity they have received over this innovation.

[nick heppinstall]

Ahh.. :-) Thanks onlynik appreciated. I must be going blind !

[nick heppinstall]

Let you know how it goes eric :-)

[pejay]

Did someone forget to close the curtains before having a 'personal moment'?!

[thehawk]

pejay said:

Did someone forget to close the curtains before having a 'personal moment'?!

Some people are a bit precious/paranoid

[thinfourth2]

just remember to erect a large wall infront of your house so it can't be seen by any members of the evil baby eating public

[nick heppinstall]

thehawk said:

pejay said:

Did someone forget to close the curtains before having a 'personal moment'?!

Some people are a bit precious/paranoid

When some people have small children / toddlers then I think they have a right to be in todays society .....

[Jasandjules]

thehawk said:

pejay said:

Did someone forget to close the curtains before having a 'personal moment'?!

Some people are a bit precious/paranoid

Some people have nice cars sat on the driveway and would prefer if burglars and thieves couldn't sit at home all nice and cosy and make a little list of all the places to target.

[cs02rm0]

Google's UK boss said on newsnight that they'd remove any pictures you had a concern over, including a picture of your house.

Seems like it's all public information to me though!

[thehawk]

Jasandjules said:

thehawk said:

pejay said:

Did someone forget to close the curtains before having a 'personal moment'?!

Some people are a bit precious/paranoid

Some people have nice cars sat on the driveway and would prefer if burglars and thieves couldn't sit at home all nice and cosy and make a little list of all the places to target.

As opposed to just driving around the neighborhood? Really makes no difference.

Same goes for kids, millions of households have children, millions of houses have kids playing outside or kids play equipment. Can't quite see the reason for so much paranoia. Especially the comment about 'todays society'. Is there any real evidence to say the it is any more dangerous for kids now rather than the 1950's?

Edited by thehawk on Saturday 21st March 08:43

[Don]

thinfourth2 said:

just remember to erect a large wall infront of your house so it can't be seen by any members of the evil baby eating public

I find it astonishing how many people seem to think they have a right to decide what OTHER PEOPLE are allowed to do in public areas.

I can walk down any fking street in Britain and I can see exactly what the Google car saw. And I can take pictures of it. And I can post it on the Internet if I want.

This is because despite the public thinking that big cameras are illegal they fking well aren't.

Google are being more than reasonable with their "Report a Concern" facility. Even more fking reasonable with their number plate blurring and face blurring technology - there was NO requirement for them to do this.

If the Google Car comes round to my street to take pictures I'll be delighted. It's not like they knock on the door and ask if they can photograph the fking kitchen now is it!

Edited by Don on Saturday 21st March 08:45

[colonel c]

nick heppinstall said:

thehawk said:

pejay said:

Did someone forget to close the curtains before having a 'personal moment'?!

Some people are a bit precious/paranoid

When some people have small children / toddlers then I think they have a right to be in todays society .....

Shirley within a small space of time this will be nothing more than a snapshot as people move, change cars, etc negative details will become no longer be relevant.
The millions of kiddy fiddlers, car thieves, burglars and style police will be wasting their time using street view to get you.

[V8mate]

Probbaly draw more attention to yourself by virtue of being 'missing' in your street.

Potential burglar (can scrotes use PCs?) scrolls down street: number 1 - boring, number 3 - boring, number 5 - hmmn - why are they blanked out - what are they hiding? Dave - get the Batmobile, we're off to number 5!

[Jasandjules]

thehawk said:

As opposed to just driving around the eighborhood? Really makes no difference.

You'd be surprised at what neighbours see and report. THe same car sitting around or slowly cruising around a few times gets noticed.

A mate of mine nearly got nicked because he used to wait up the road from his GF's house. The neighbours saw him a couple of times and called it in.

[Don]

cs02rm0 said:

Google's UK boss said on newsnight that they'd remove any pictures you had a concern over, including a picture of your house.

Seems like it's all public information to me though!

Yes it is.

And what I like about it is that it is properly PUBLIC. Anyone can view the information. It's not like Google is a government agency determined to gather information and hide it away so that only they benefit. Nope. Any information they gather is given away to everyone.

It's a level playing field.

We don't object to information like the location of every speed camera in Britain being publicly available.

How anyone can object to that I do not know. Google don't gather anything that you couldn't find out just by walking around - which is not illegal last time I checked.

[Nolar Dog]

I want my place removed too.

My block of flats would look pretty cool with a big chunk missing from it.