Remove Your Face, House, Car from Google Street View
March 23rd, 2009Google Street View can easily photograph your face, house, car, license plate etc. and display it across the world which may raise privacy concerns. But it is easy to remove such personal images from Google Street View easily.
Google respects your privacy and usually blurs identifying personal details. But now you can ask Google to have photographs of yourself, your children, cars or houses completely removed from the Google Street View even where the images have already been blurred.
Step I - Identify Street View
First find the Google Street View page. Visit Google Maps, zoom to the maximum zoom possible, and if a Street View is available, you can see the details. You can also make the small orange man on the bottom right screen walk along the street and watch the Street View change.
For example, I walked along the Market street in San Francisco on Google maps, and found several people and shops. Suppose I want to report that the Google Street car photographed my face and pasted it on Google Street view, I can report it to Google.
Step 2 – Report Inappropriate Google Street View
After you identify the concerned Google Street View, see the bottom left of the concerned map screen, and look for the faint “Report a Problem” link. Click on it.
Step 3 – Report Privacy Concerns
Clicking on this link takes you to the Google Local Business Centre page where you can Report Inappropriate Street View.
They allow you to report a face that has not been blurred, an identifiable photo of your face or your child face, your legible license plate that has not been blurred, a picture of your car, your house, inappropriate offensive or NSFW images, bad image quality, security concerns etc. Report your Street View problem in detail and fill in your email
Step 4 – Focus Face, Car, House on Street Image
They provide an detailed Street View Image you reported. Adjust the red box in 3D by moving your mouse and clearly focus on the part of the image you are reporting.
Submit it and you are done. Check the neighbourhood around your house on Google Maps Street View, and if you find yourself there, unblurred and easily identifiable, report to Google and get yourself blurred or removed.
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Vote with your PC until Google gets the message.
STOP USING ANY GOOGLE SERVICES – then google will get the message.
(don’t make google your default search engine, don’t use picasa, don’t use Google maps etc. etc.)
People feel invaded. It might be legal but that doesn’t make it inoffensive.The opportunity cost of someone walking down my street to “stake out” my house is so great that it will put off 99.9% of people doing it, but now google is offering free snooping for all and sundry without even leaving the comfort of their home, prison cell or desk!
And email this to all your friends so they do the same! Let’s kick google where it hurts.
I saw the camera driving round my street today – evil looking thing! What an invasion of privacy – I had the patio door open in my childs bedroom and want my house removed from it. The car was driving too fast for me to close the door and curtains. How dare anyone look into my child’s room. It’s ok saying anyone can walk past and see your house but they can’t zoom in that close. It’s every criminals dream – what is the purpose of street view for normal people?
could you take my house and car of stree view asap
I TOTALY AGREE WITH THE COMMENTS WE HAVE NO PRIVACY WITH GOOGLE STREET VIEW .I want my property removed and also have friends who want the same .I live by a lot of elederly people who do not have the internet and angry about this site as it crimminals can home in on them.Google should have the guts to knock on peoples doors before hand and ask if they want to have there property etc filmed in such away.We should have a right to say yes or no.Surley this must come under the HUMAN RIGHT ACT some were of choosing wheather or not we can be displayed in such a manner it is MY HUMAN RIGHT to say NO.