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It's Surprisingly Simple to Get Your House Off Google Street View
- th0ma5 12y agoI work with amateur radio, and just this past weekend I was being nosy about who managed to receive one of my digital signals by looking them up on Street View, and their house was blurred out. My fault for looking I guess!
- pavel_lishin 12y agoHow did you get their address?
- jakebasile 12y agoAt least in the US, every Amateur Radio operator's address is available on the FCC website[1]. The other operator would have given his call sign, which he could look up there. [1]: http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchAmateur.jsp http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchAmateur.jsp
- post_break 12y agoIf you want an example, look at 671 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka, IL 60093. It's a pretty famous house.
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- rwfilice 12y agoThis sort of offends me - if they offer the option to remove your house entirely, they should offer it to all.
- stevesearer 12y agoFunny, I wouldn't have thought that the house from Home Alone would be a big deal. It is interesting that the whole block that home is on is also removed from Street View as well: http://imgur.com/A03AhRX http://imgur.com/A03AhRX
- post_break 12y agoAbout 2 months ago only the house was blurred. Now the whole street is gone.
- dredmorbius 12y ago"Home Alone" for the curious.
- frik 12y agohttps://goo.gl/maps/7Qo43 https://goo.gl/maps/7Qo43
- chiph 12y agoThis could backfire if you ever plan on selling your house. Many prospective buyers will check the streetview, and the surrounding neighborhood.
- jfc 12y agoZillow includes the Google Street View image option on for sale properties, where available. It really does give you a better sense of the house and its surroundings. I wonder if Google could/would implement a toggle option, so that homeowners could turn Street View on or off.
- junto 12y agoThe StreetView privacy issue was so heated in Germany that nearly every street has multiple homes blocked out.
- FreakyT 12y agoThis seems kind of ridiculous, honestly. Unless your house is surrounded by high walls in real life, what it looks like is quite clearly public information.
- dangerlibrary 12y agoSo, yes, you're clearly right. The appearance of publicly visible places is public information - anyone can go get it, and nobody can legally stop them. But there is definitely a meaningful difference between searching on Google and travelling to someone's home. In particular, travelling to someone's home is a symmetric relationship - if one has a security camera, one can see everyone who has visited.
- jMyles 12y ago> meaningful With time as the x axis, I see a downward slope in this metric. In some relatively small number of years, you'll have a drone the size of a mosquito which can fly to the home and take incredible high-resolution 3D-captures, all while either evading the hypothetical security or, more likely, blending in with existing drone noise. At that time, how meaningful will be the difference between gleaning information about the appearance of a publicly viewable object by direct optical intake or by some 'virtual' mechanism?
- dangerlibrary 12y agoDrones don't fly very far. It may be possible to rent one, but now you've introduced a third party that could be compelled to redact the images, as Google has been. So to view the house anonymously from far way / another country, you'd still need to travel to some place nearby. You're right that it's no longer symmetric, but it's far more expensive than a free and anonymous Google search.
- jMyles 12y agoIt's not at all hard for me to imagine a peer-to-peer drone sharing service, with no centralized authority to compel, and nearby flight times to everywhere. Shit man, satellites even.
- fuzzywalrus 12y agoThis seems like it could be ripe for abuse... Want to obfuscate your competition? Wipe them off Google maps street view. I wonder if they have various safeguards.
- adamwilcox 12y agoWhat is far more interesting is the other story referenced in the bloomberg piece. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-09/zuckerberg-bedroom-privacy-hinges-on-claim-of-broken-promise http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-09/zuckerberg...