Warning Google Street View now covering 85% of UK

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Amanita wrote: »

I hate that an American corporation can take pictures of my home and cars and post them on the internet without asking or obtaining my consent.

If they were prepared to pay me for the use of my home then that would be OK.

Well thats just complaining for the sake of it then isn't it.

The image posted is something anyone stood there could see, why should someone have to pay? Do you run out and charge people walking by who look in the direction of your house?

OnTheUp_2-2

Some people want the images removed as they like their privacy, it doesnt just have to be about burglars!!!

UK2010

Grade_A_Reject wrote: »

And exactly how clear are your locks on the displayed images? Please.

They're not. Basically you can hardly see a thing when it comes to the locks. It's as good a view of anyones lock that you'd get stood on the pavement without going down the driveway/path etc. This is just scaremongering.

UK2010

OnTheUp wrote: »

Some people want the images removed as they like their privacy, it doesnt just have to be about burglars!!!

That makes no sense. Why don't they have a high fence or hedge if it's privacy they want?

Grade_A_Reject

jacktyler wrote: »

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=&sll=52.344464,0.519705&sspn=0.040375,0.132093&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&t=h&layer=c&cbll=53.814486,-3.052264&panoid=NPkGXFc2kdIgYaDWIvDSCQ&cbp=12,3.02,,1,14.58&ll=53.814538,-3.052139&spn=0.043175,0.169086&z=13

kingfisherblue wrote: »

Right, I've had a look and the photo was taken in the early summer, when my fuschia bushes were just beginning to bloom.

I've never heard one referred to as that before.

DCFC79

UK2010 wrote: »

That makes no sense. Why don't they have a high fence or hedge if it's privacy they want?

or live in the country

mellymeep

Do you think a burglar actually ever would of considered using street view to scope out houses to break into? Or has everyone's excessive paranoia just put the idea out there for them now?

OnTheUp_2-2

lmao why cant you just accept that for what ever reason, people may just not want their home/car/motorbike/child/husband/wife on the internet !!

Why should anyone have to justify themselves for it to be valid to you?? I didnt want my house on there, full stop. I made the mistake of trying to begin justifying why it is I felt that way. I realised that I didnt have to do that, especially for people to be so rude.

Its like talking to a brick wall. People are not obliged to conform to your way of thinking... i mean those that disagree with GSV.. I havent seen them on this threading telling people that they are stupid and pathetic for thinking that GSV is okay. they are not trying to force you to think differently!!


Give it up, we all have different opinions!! Be pretty boring if we were all the same!

OnTheUp_2-2

Oh and I do live in the country.

Requiem

Amanita wrote: »

I'm not - never said I was did I? You have just assumed that.

I hate that an American corporation can take pictures of my home and cars and post them on the internet without asking or obtaining my consent.

If they were prepared to pay me for the use of my home then that would be OK.

Anyone could walk up to your house and take a photo, you are in no position to stop them or to demand that they have your consent.

Anyone thinking that GSV will assist burglaries is taking things too far. It's completely illogical. If they wanted to study a picture of your house, they could run up to your front door, photograph your lock and leg it. It's just not feasible to use GSV in this way. But as it's been said many times, most burglaries are crimes of opportunity or planned/scoped out in such a way that they would have visited your house and already have the necessary info of all your vulnerabilites anyway!

Searching specifically for vulnerable houses using GSV would take far too long, it's far too tedious and completely pointless when in a fraction of the time you can "innocently" walk or drive by and check it out in person.

To think that a still photo of your street would cause some people this much distress is shocking.

As for the CCTV thing, a previous poster mentioned that you are caught (on average) on CCTV up to 300 times a day - to top this off, there are hundreds (thousands?) of LIVE CCTV feeds that are viewable online. Any one can log on to live viewings and possibly spot you at any given time (dependant on several variables, of course).