Warning Google Street View now covering 85% of UK

Amanita_2

pulliptears wrote: »

The average UK Citizen is captured on CCTV THREE HUNDRED times a day....I would assume you and your cars would also appear a similar amount of time...Are you planning to ask for your image to be removed from those?

Don't be absurd - those images are not posted on the net for entertainment purposes.

UK2010

OnTheUp wrote: »

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 !!

It's not for any reason though is it. It's for one reason..............another thing to moan about!

OnTheUp_2-2

Requiem wrote: »

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).

Omg do you just not read?????????

This person has just stated and you have even quoted them, that its NOT about burglars.

Grade_A_Reject

OnTheUp wrote: »

in my close of 6 houses there are no pavements

You're giving too much away on a public forum. I've now narrowed your address down to about 1 in 2,600,000. Now I only need to work out when you're out.

OnTheUp wrote: »

Oh and I do live in the country.

1,300,000 (homing in)

OnTheUp_2-2

UK2010 wrote: »

It's not for any reason though is it. It's for one reason..............another thing to moan about!

Pot and kettle spring to mind.

Amanita_2

For goodness sake - I came on to this thread to ask if anyone knew how long it takes to remove the image - that is all.

Now discuss amongst yourselves - I have better ways to spend a Sunday evening.

OnTheUp_2-2

Amanita wrote: »

For goodness sake - I came on to this thread to ask if anyone knew how long it takes to remove the image - that is all.

Now discuss amongst yourselves - I have better ways to spend a Sunday evening.

:T well said, there is a link at the bottom right hand side of the page to report images. Be aware though it only removes it at that angle, or it did on mine, so you will need to manouvre round and click on the link again.

My images were gone within 48 hours :-)

Darksun

Amanita wrote: »

Don't be absurd - those images are not posted on the net for entertainment purposes.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/realtime/road/default.aspx

Could argue it's not for 'entertainment' purposes, but then, GSV also has plenty of practical uses.

TurkishDelight

wik wrote: »

Hi all I am new to this bit of the forums,
I have just been and looked.... its an old piccy as is last springs daffodils and my old car is outside the house..

I for one think that streetview is very handy, a few months ago I had to travel to leeds for a work thing - and not knowing the city, let alone how to find the building I wanted, I looked it up on goggle, and was able to see the building I needed to go to, as well as being able to see the entrance of the carpark!! and for once I didnt get lost!!

Welcome along wik

I know this was a typo, but Google should call streetview Goggle, that'd be great!

elsien

Just checked my address, and every street around mine (middle of a large town) is on, but my road isn't, and I was curious as to why? Any ideas - it's not a short road, so one or two people requesting privacy shouldn't affect the whole lot?
(Whereas my sister who lives up a dirt track in the wilds of Cumbria is still on there.)