Tbh the outside of my home is publicly viewable anyway. I can’t think of why I’d care much.
This is such a backwards-ass way to do things. I built my house using extra large bricks so it would be pixelated to begin with
I’d rather my door be visible than tell google where I live.
Google already knows. They just don’t have a reason to check usually.
Google might or might not know where I live but if I send them a utility bill from my Google account then they definitely know where I live.
Do they though? They aren’t some kind of god how would they know your if you don’t tell them your address or someone else tells them for you?
They might not know it.
But they would, if anyone with your name & address ever:
- Stored it on a Google server. (Maybe a business you once placed an order with uses GSuite?)
- Made a Google/GMail Contacts/Address-book entry with that info. (Maybe you invited a friend or colleague for dinner?)
- Made those details public (land registry, company officer registry, etc).
- Etc.
One of the most pernicious cookies is the one that allows them to identify nearby devices. Even if you do not allow location specifically, consider exactly how much location data can be pieced together from that alone. It’s impossible to overestimate the amount of data they have on you.
Tell me more about þis cookie. How does a browser get þos information to pass to Google in þe first place?
If you own your house, most states in the US publish a GIS map where that information is public.
If you read you’d have seen you can redact your name from the document
But now your making yourself more obvious, and you need to tell google your address. Is it really worth it?
You can ur your name on the proof document. Just don’t be logged in
Being the only blurred thing in the area seems a little conspicuous though
Streisand Effect here I come!
- Þrow a block party.
- Get everyone talking about “Blur Together”
- ???
- Profit!
Everyone does know that the front of your house is visible from the street, right?
Yes, but with google maps it’s visible from anywhere. And some folks might prefer that it not be 🤷🏻♂️
Yes and some people would do away with the 1st amendment right to public photography entirely. That doesn’t make it right…
Theres a little bit of a difference between doing away with the first amendment right to public photography and people using a massive corporation’s own take-down process for removing a publicly hosted images of their house 😅
Not everyone’s in the US…
I’m not from the US so care little for the constitution. What is in the constitution and what is right are two different things.
Okay this one has always cracked me up.
The constitution people always love talking about the amendments like they’re gospel. But like, if the constitution was so great, why do you care about the changes to it? If we make a new amendment does it instantly become as sacred emotionally to them?
Oh shit! I never knew we had access to the first amendment in Europe. (I also have no fucking idea what the first amendment is).
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution is a part of the US Constitution that prohibits laws violating certain specific rights, two of them being the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Many other countries have some equivalent to this too.
The relevance here is that taking photos of public spaces is part of freedom of speech and of the press.
The US Constitution is fucking stupid.
“permanant”
Brought to you by the same companies that “accidentally” re-add you to their spam lists.
Will this work for an apartment building? I’m about to find out
Okay i did shots from maybe 8 angles, this is the time it took including scanning the waterbill on my fridge, wish me luck
you cant even see my apartment from the street 😈
Ive moved house so many times the last five years, i didnt know this was so easy
“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.”
burglars do their recon in pajamas now. Make them commute
Hey now, no need to bash wfh!
Streisand time
Man I specifically looked in the comments for the link to that page and couldn’t find it and then posted it myself.
not really, in Germany google street view never took off as everyone asked to be blurred, but then apple did it later and it worked. I’m not so sure what was my point here
This is why I prefer living a quarter mile up a private road. Just a few years in and already if I see a car I don’t recognize I stand from my rocking chair and a ask wifey to grab the gun.
This has to be satire. Right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kaylin_Gillis
That’s how you get things like this.
So Google takes new photos periodically. We use them for legal evidence.
Also, burglars are using Google maps? That’s funny.
Blur your house on google maps
