I've just had my house smudged out on Google Street View

Interestingly, the neighbours house is blurred out,

Well, it would appear that you have discovered where the OP lives…

Is it possible to unblur out houses? If I bought a place where the previous owner had been an ar5e and wanted to blur it out I’d want that corrected.

Saw a TomTom camera car the other day.

I wonder if that emans we’ll be getting ‘street view’ sat navs soon?

Which begs he question, would you want your hosue bluring out on the sat nav?

I wonder if that emans we’ll be getting ‘street view’ sat navs soon?

You never tried Google maps nav? Street view pic of the destination

I think if you’ve been burgled you would.

I’m worried now, just checked Street View and you can see we’ve left the upstairs window open…..

I think if you’ve been burgled you would.

Been burgled, absolutely 100% sure it wasn’t the result of streetview.

Having thought about it, I wonder if it’s just got text reading software to update the “turn right, signposted …………” miss-directions.

I do try to take care about what information I put on Facebook. Never ceases to amaze me the amount of people who broadcast to all their friends (and god knows who else) about the fact that they are all off to Florida for 2 weeks from Saturday…..

I’m not FB friends with any burglars, and I tend to mention holidays and the like to my friend, family and colleagues anyway. Posting it on Facebook makes no difference.

EH? Why not have the picture? If visiting an address new to me, I always have a quick scan on street view, so I know where I’m aiming for.

Ah see – that’s the genius of it.
Now you can say – ‘are you looking at streetview – mine’s the blurry one’.
Maybe.

Blimey – I’ve just looked on streetview – the hedges in front of our houses have grown a bit in the last few years! Surprised we haven’t got people complaining about light blocking. I’d better get them smudged out to remove evidence.

I’m not FB friends with any burglars, and I tend to mention holidays and the like to my friend, family and colleagues anyway. Posting it on Facebook makes no difference.

I dunno, 10 years ago Facebook was a neat way of staying in touch and organising things. But I’ve been getting more and more inclined to remove my account, it’s just a machine for harvesting data and distributing clickbait.

That and with a few exceptions most of my friends fall into 2 categories:
1) life still revolves arround getting paralytic on Saturday night
2) had kids which is even more monotonus and boring

I dunno, 10 years ago Facebook was a neat way of staying in touch and organising things. But I’ve been getting more and more inclined to remove my account, it’s just a machine for harvesting data and distributing clickbait.

That’s true, but unless the burglars are also working for Buzzfeed I don’t think I need to worry about mentioning going on holiday 🙂

Friends of friends?

Why take the risk? Take matters into your own hands.

Friends of friends?

Click privacy settings, there’s more information available about Fort Knox on facebook than you can see on my profile.

Don’t click on the clickbait then?

miketually – Member

I’m not FB friends with any burglars, and I tend to mention holidays and the like to my friend, family and colleagues anyway. Posting it on Facebook makes no difference.

I’m not convinced that the info/data remains as close as you think it does. Perhaps you have your page locked down better than mine?

A week or so after our wedding, my sister-in-law was picking her son up from school and another mum at the gates said something along the lines of how nice she looked at the wedding she’d recently been to.
My sis-in-law was a bit freaked out by it (she doesn’t have a FB account), and it turned out that a friend of ours knew some one who knew someone and the pics ended up popping up on a woman’s facebook page hundreds of miles away that we don’t even know who just so happens to be a mum of someone at the school my nephew goes to.

There was a thing online a while ago about a bloke who’d made a fairly simple program that trawled data and matched people’s details up to FB posts and other information that they had put online (twitter feeds etc.). Basically it came up with a database of who they are, where they live and when they are going to be on holiday.

Perhaps it’s a bit tin-foil hat and all that – but there are certain bits of information that I’d rather not publicise, as I’m not sure how far it will get and who will see it.

Friends of friends?

I’m not convinced that the info/data remains as close as you think it does. Perhaps you have your page locked down better than mine?

My privacy settings are set to not show to friends of friends, but I’d hope that none of my friends’ friends are burglars either. Even if they were, I’m not convinced that burglars use Facebook to house identification anyway. If they do, they’d be in for a shock if they burgled us while on holiday, because my in-laws move in to look after our dogs, and my father-in-law is much bigger and scarier than me 🙂

I’m a teacher, so you could probably guess when I was likely to be on holiday without using Facebook…

Facebook keeps trying to guess my hometown, where I went to school etc. At the moment, it doesn’t even get the country right.

Facebook keeps trying to guess my hometown, where I went to school etc. At the moment, it doesn’t even get the country right.

it used to be really dumb.
I updated my location to French Guiana (I have worked there 10yrs ago), and the only thing that did was make every friend hit a thumbs up and leave a comment about how I’d kept that news quiet.
Facebook still thinks I live in the same town as where I live.
Unless I go thru a UK proxy, and it thinks I live in London somewhere, briefly.

Sadly, FB location detection is too clever now and totally ignores what you tell it and relies on what your ISP tells it.

Might wrap my house in bubble wrap. Then it’ll be smudged out IRL as well as google, tomtom, MS bong, etc. if or when Germany realises how backward it is and lets them scan the country.

My sis-in-law was a bit freaked out by it (she doesn’t have a FB account)

Why would that freak her out?

In the days before Facebook people still shared photos of weddings. They used to put them in the local paper as well.

What’s the problem?

OP- it marks you out as either paranoid or having something to hide.

FB location detection is too clever now and totally ignores what you tell it and relies on what your ISP tells it

If they don’t know I live in Darlington, they’re complete idiots 🙂

gobuchul – Member

Why would that freak her out?

In the days before Facebook people still shared photos of weddings. They used to put them in the local paper as well.

What’s the problem?

Maybe ‘freak her out’ was a bit of a strong term.
She just found it weird that a woman with no family connection or direct friend connection and lives over 100 miles from where the wedding took place (so not exactly local paper type stuff) was able to see photos of her at a wedding that was only a week prior.

It wasn’t like she was bothered by the fact this woman had seen some photos of her; more the process of how it occured. Took us a while to work out the ‘links’.
I think the fact that she doesn’t use FB, so didn’t realise how easy it is for stuff to be shared/distributed was part of it.

Well I’m convinced. I’ve just blurred my house out too…

^^ Brilliant. That’s loads better than Google’s attempt!

Why would that freak her out?

In the days before Facebook people still shared photos of weddings. They used to put them in the local paper as well.

What’s the problem?

I’d be more wierded out by the fact they mentioned it. Most race entry forms have something allog the lines of “by entering, participants give the organisers permission to use their name and likeness in any media connected with the event”. So my photo may well be all over the place and that doesnt bother me.

But if a random friend of a friend of a friend I dodn’t know came upto me and started talking about more personal photos I’d be a bit wierded out. Not much you can do to stop them seeing the pics, but I think the difference between the two situations is the other peson’s overstepping a mark IMO by bringing it up. “contgrats on that race result I saw you mentioned in” = fine, “I didn’t realies we had a mutual friend in XXXX” = fine, “you look good in those photos” = a bit stalkerish and creepy.

A friend who’s living with a guy who has kids won’t post group pics of them all because they’re not her kids. Shame really.

Well I’m convinced. I’ve just blurred my house out too…

What a coincidence, my house is actually painted like that!

What a coincidence, my house is actually painted like that!

the replacement for the Tartan Paint initiation? “go and get us some Google Blurred paint will you?”

I had the number plate on my car blurred out last year as somehow SV missed it, still not sure if I should have bothered…

“If a thief looked at my house on Street View, saw it as being easy pickings, then I’d expect they’d be more prepared at night to come and try their luck.”
why come at night if looking for easy pickings? most burglars come in the day.
if they come at night it is usually limited entry for your car keys . so rather than wasting time blurring your house on google sell your car and get a banger.

OP, what are you going to do if a big hollywood movie wants to shoot a car chase on your street?

Stella Street was recorded on the road where I used to live, I felt my rights were most infringed.

Just had a quick look at our house to see how genuinely useful the information is to the local crims….

Then there’s the side entrances that are shadowy voids that you cannot see down at all. Oh, and there’s the front door.

You’ve said too much, you fool!

This is both fascinating and hilarous all at the same time. If, by some chance, burglars were scoping your street using street view, wouldn’t the fact that you’ve gone to the effort of having it blurred out (sniggers) on streetview peak thier interest? It’s like the guy round the corner from where i live who built a 8ft high wall accross the front of his property with electric gates (only over the front mind, you could still walk up the neighbours drive and step over the 3ft high picket fence seperating them). It just screams ‘IVE GOT SOMETHING WORTH BREAKING IN FOR’.

I reckon the OP has some special interest equipment in his front room, and had forgotten to close the curtains when the car came past.

Interesting how he doesn’t want the exterior of his house on there but lots of military bases aren’t so bothered.

Yeah, but military bases have guards with guns and everything, so I don’t suppose they have the same problem with burglars as the OP.

Tbh I blurred our house out

Our garage was open at the time and you can see two cycles and a classic car, plus tools etc.

Good feature.

Is this the modern equivalent of being ex directory? Some people in the olden days seemed to think of it as a bit special to not be in the phone book.

It just screams ‘IVE GOT SOMETHING WORTH BREAKING IN FOR’.

A bit like people who have bugler alarms.

A bugler alarm, yesterday