google street remove your home

snowboardbob

I am hoping tonight and i didnt know where to put this ,the monkeys (sorry to insult monkeys ) still havnt taken my house off their web site ,,there is a photo of my van etc for all to see ,even my work number on the van is in there ,theives can surf the net and choose your house ,car or caravan etc to nick ,who do google think they are:mad: i would like privicy is this an unreasonable request
i ask as many of you to e mail them to have your property removed

KeithP

snowboardbob wrote: »

i ask as many of you to e mail them to have your property removed

Thanks for your concern, but I do not think it is a problem... IMHO.

Anyway, you've told us emailing them doesn't have the desired effect.

Excuse me for asking, but why did you put your phone number on your van?
I would've thought you would be pleased with the extra advertising.

gordikin

Who cares! If you get your house removed I'd be round to check out why?

cyberbob

Have you actually clicked on the report a problem link on the image. Then you can get it removed. Ours was taken off at our request no problem

http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2009/03/remove-face-house-car-from-google-street-view/

jackieb

snowboardbob wrote: »

I am hoping tonight and i didnt know where to put this ,the monkeys (sorry to insult monkeys ) still havnt taken my house off their web site ,,there is a photo of my van etc for all to see ,even my work number on the van is in there ,theives can surf the net and choose your house ,car or caravan etc to nick ,who do google think they are:mad: i would like privicy is this an unreasonable request
i ask as many of you to e mail them to have your property removed

But thieves can still walk past your house, or park across the road to eye your place up, even if you get your picture removed.

Searcher

snowboardbob wrote: »

I am hoping tonight and i didnt know where to put this ,the monkeys (sorry to insult monkeys ) still havnt taken my house off their web site ,,there is a photo of my van etc for all to see ,even my work number on the van is in there ,theives can surf the net and choose your house ,car or caravan etc to nick ,who do google think they are:mad: i would like privicy is this an unreasonable request
i ask as many of you to e mail them to have your property removed

Oh Please!
You don't happen to read the Daily Mail by any chance do you?

Hintza

Doesn't bother me at all since they have come nowhere near our house..:D

Freddie_Snowbits

I love my picture of Freddie and Freda's Pad, teh flowers are blooming and the cat is on the window.

No problems and we ain't bin robbed yet.

sarahg1969

You're complaining about free advertising, OP?!

Why would thieves trawl google street view to find something to steal? Is it not easier to walk down your street?

The only problem I have with street view is that it's bin day and the drive looks a mess with bins all over it, and if you go up the side road, you can see that I have washing on the line!

marvin

So there is a van parked outside your property, how would anyone know that that van belongs there and it was not just there for some work reason? Pictures on Strret View are up to 2 years out of date anyone that uses them for nafarious reasons will be really stupid because any changes could have occured since then (Like the flats that show around my area were flattened last summer and don't exist anymore.)

Lets say you plan to sell your house in a couple of years google streetview will be fairly good for that and to have the picture blocked says (or it would to me) high crime area avoid or pay less.

You going to block the ariel view as well? They can see a lot more from that including what is in your back garden.

By far a bigger problem to your privacy are things like 192.com where people for a fee can obtain just about anything about you including your address who else lives there when you were born when you were married (if you were) when you divorced how many children you have etc etc etc.

cyberbob

jackieb wrote: »

But thieves can still walk past your house, or park across the road to eye your place up, even if you get your picture removed.

Yes but they can't sit there for hours on end zoom in on entry points etc. I'm not saying it happens but its a possibility

If you look at what google have been up to in Germany there not the benign search tool everyone thinks

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/google_streetview_logs_wlans/

I don't have concerns that if my house was on streetview that I would be robbed. What worries me more is the creeping collection and cross referencing of personal an public data with very little controls and possible future uses.