My parents don’t live in the city that illustrates this article, but they live in a city that is quite close and in a house with a fairly similar architecture. When you live in a skyscraper or an apartment in a big city, it’s easy to go unnoticed. In a small town and in a similar house, not so much: it can A lot of information can be discovered about you just by looking at your facade.. That is why, for my family, it is the order of the day to take extreme security precautions, such as closing the street-level windows or not leaving the door open under any circumstances.
And then Google Maps came along. The surprise came in teaching them how to use it Google Maps, they must have looked for their house on Street View: We could see the clothes hanging, our pots, the color of the interior curtains and also my father’s car, which he usually parks in front of the house. There is a lot of information available to the curious and lovers of other things and my parents let me know.
Desperate times call for bad remedies: to calm my parents down I made a decision: I explained to them that it was possible. ask Google to blur our home to add an extra layer of protection and improve our privacy.
This is how I asked Google to blur my house in Maps Street View
It sounds silly, but The information that can be obtained from a thorough analysis of the image is valuable.: whether it is inhabited or abandoned, what is the level of purchasing power in the neighborhood, whether there are valuables easily accessible, access to the property (for example, my house does not have bars on the doors, but our neighbor’s does).
Discovering what you see on Google Maps and its Street View function is as simple as writing your address in the app box and clicking on the thumbnail to view the surroundings. Then we press the button with the three dots in the upper right corner and there we enter ‘Report a problem‘.
At that point a form will appear that we will have to fill out, where we will have to choose what we want to blur, in this case What we are interested in is choosing “My house”.. We must then certify that we actually have the authority to request it (either because we own it or because we rent it) and provide more details to identify it.
Finally, we add our email and do the captcha to verify that we are a person. In the process, Google specifies that this is an irreversible operation.
It will take a few days for the change to take effect in case Google accepts it, because there may be situations where it can be refusedfor example if you live in a building of cultural interest or if your house is in a building with more people.
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