Street View

JJJJNR

Anyone find themselves on street view, heres me on the N11 Flippin the bird...

demakinz

man that is mad, just seen my car out side my apartment. they must of got every where. dont know how to get a link of it though.

peasant

Yepp ...van parked in front of work and the camper at the house ...neither of which I'm going to show you for privacy reasons.

On the one hand it's great, going for a drive without leaving your armchair. On the other hand I'm not particularly happy that every potential thief can now stake out my place from the comfort of their own home

EDIT: in google earth, in one of the pics when you zoom in you can even read the numberplate ...not happy about that either !

Cunning Alias

Just checked my mums place. Cant see much because of the massive tree in the front, but the camera looks over all the hedges of the houses on the other side of the road. I now know that a few of her neighbors have no side gates!

It will be interesting to see if break ins go up after this. Would also be a way for scum to check out what houses have nice cars to nick.

I think it's a great tool for getting around cities but has no place in residential areas.

Tea 1000

peasant wrote: »

Yepp ...van parked in front of work and the camper at the house ...neither of which I'm going to show you for privacy reasons.

On the one hand it's great, going for a drive without leaving your armchair. On the other hand I'm not particularly happy that every potential thief can now stake out my place from the comfort of their own home

EDIT: in google earth, in one of the pics when you zoom in you can even read the numberplate ...not happy about that either !

Ah if they're going to steal it they don't need Google's help.

smellslikeshoes

Tea 1000 wrote: »

Ah if they're going to steal it they don't need Google's help.

Would be a handy way for them to find specific targets though.

Gumbo

the fcukers came into my estate!
i can see my house and the plants outside arent fully grown so must of been a few months ago!

cormie

Think this is me



EDIT:
Just spotted myself AGAIN at a completely different location!

demakinz

kceire wrote: »

the fcukers came into my estate!
i can see my house and the plants outside arent fully grown so must of been a few months ago!

i live in the last apartment at the bottom of a cul de sack. whats the story with taking pic's of this. I looked at my mums house at her neighbour has her front door open in the picture and you can see right up the hall. its a bit scary dont you think.

evanSpiddal

I can see my car at the front of my house as well, and judging by the fuel prices in my local petrol station, it's definitely last year it came through my town! Link

PAULWATSON

disgusting invasion of privacy

demakinz

Any one else think its invasion of privacy

Our man in Havana

Complaint being sent to the Data Protection Commissioner. My car numberplate is clearly visible.

crazybaldhead

That is cool. Found my car too. It was def a while ago, I remember seeing the google van around but cant remember when it was.

Ah well.....

Mc Love

Found my car too and my neighbours were out looking at their car!

Atomic Pineapple

Invasion of privacy my arse, anyone can see the exact same thing in real life dont you know? Your licence plate isn't invisible to the human eye if their outside! :rolleyes:

Some people will complain about anything!

Professey Chin

PAULWATSON wrote: »

disgusting invasion of privacy

demakinz wrote: »

Any one else think its invasion of privacy

Haddockman wrote: »

Complaint being sent to the Data Protection Commissioner. My car numberplate is clearly visible.

_Kaiser_

Yep I moved recently, but the car is outside my last place and by the looks of it it was Wednesday (bin day)

EDIT: Their reg-blurring software isn't perfect either... I just checked where my office was and I can clearly see the plate of one of the girl's cars

Our man in Havana

draffodx wrote: »

Invasion of privacy my arse, anyone can see the exact same thing in real life dont you know? Your licence plate isn't invisible to the human eye if their outside! :rolleyes:

Some people will complain about anything!

And Goggle will have to comply.

loike

Haddockman wrote: »

Complaint being sent to the Data Protection Commissioner. My car numberplate is clearly visible.

Yeah because thats really going to cause you a great deal of distress. You can just contact google and they will do it for you instead of going to someone else first

God some people over react to much lol

Our man in Havana

So what?

Who says google will remove it?

Atomic Pineapple

Haddockman wrote: »

And Goggle will have to comply.

To what?

Haddockman wrote: »

So what?

Who says google will remove it?

They will blur it out if you request it.

dave1982

Strange found my house car reg blurred but trailer reg is not

Atomic Pineapple

dave1982 wrote: »

Strange found my house car reg blurred but trailer reg is not

They used a scanner to try to identify number plates and auto blur them but you can request them to blur out a number plate if you want.

But I cant see why you'd want to.

peasant

draffodx wrote: »

Invasion of privacy my arse, anyone can see the exact same thing in real life dont you know?

not quite ...

Take my house for example. Drive past it, blink, and you'll miss it because it's pretty hidden. There's nowhere to stop really to check it out either.

The feckin' google camera however looks over the hedge and there are several shots in a row, offering different angles where you can clearly see the place at your leisure ...something you couldn't do in real life without coming down my driveway (and being barked at by the dogs).

So yes ...millions of people on the internet can potentially see something that most of my neighbours who just drive by haven't seen yet and won't ever see without stopping and coming into the driveway.

That in my view constitiutes an invasion of privacy.

In my particular case there's nothing interesting (or of value) to see ...but it's an invasion of privacy nonetheless.

EDIT:
Especially in rural locations this could have consequences. If you try to stake out houses in rural Ireland by car or on foot, you will be seen and taken note of ...now you can do it from the comfort of your armchairand pick a few spots that might warrant closer inspection

Plug

Ah i thought everywhere is done in Ireland. crap:(

Atomic Pineapple

peasant wrote: »

not quite ...

Take my house for example. Drive past it, blink, and you'll miss it because it's pretty hidden. There's nowhere to stop really to check it out either.

The feckin' google camera however looks over the hedge and there are several shots in a row, offering different angles where you can clearly see the place at your leisure ...something you couldn't do in real life without coming down my driveway (and being barked at by the dogs).

So yes ...millions of people on the internet can potentially see something that most of my neighbours who just drive by haven't seen yet and won't ever see without stopping and coming into the driveway.

That in my view constitiutes an invasion of privacy.

In my particular case there's nothing interesting (or of value) to see ...but it's an invasion of privacy nonetheless.

EDIT:
Especially in rural locations this could have consequences. If you try to stake out houses in rural Ireland by car or on foot, you will be seen and taken note of ...now you can do it from the comfort of your armchairand pick a few spots that might warrant closer inspection

True but if someone wanted to they'd be able to get the exact same view in real life without doing anything wrong.

Your rural Ireland example doesn't hold true either, my home place is in the middle of nowhere on a road you'd never find with only 5 houses on it.

The house had to have been staked out as there is only an hour everyday where no one is there and it was broken into in that exact hour along with two other houses over the same few days in the same area, and apart from a vague report of a blue car about the place no one saw anything.

EDIT: also the fact still remains that someone would still have to stake out an area in real life as a static picture doesn't give them what they want.

And then there is the fact that the pictures are not at all recent.

EDIT 2: Get bigger hedges

peasant

draffodx wrote: »

EDIT: also the fact still remains that someone would still have to stake out an area in real life as a static picture doesn't give them what they want.

But it gives them ideas ...and that's my point.

BTW ...I've just "driven" a bit of my daily drive on google earth and I've seen things on the screen that I never knew existed in years of driving past every day. Garages, garden sheds, back entrances etc ...all because the camera is up so high and peeks over hedges and into corners that you normally wouldn't see. I feel like a stalker now

Our man in Havana

Will google remove your house if you ask them?

I share all of your concerns Peasant.

Atomic Pineapple

peasant wrote: »

But it gives them ideas ...and that's my point.

BTW ...I've just "driven" a bit of my daily drive on google earth and I've seen things on the screen that I never knew existed in years of driving past every day. Garages, garden sheds, back entrances etc ...all because the camera is up so high and peeks over hedges and into corners that you normally wouldn't see. I feel like a stalker now

I'd bet someone out scoping a place would spot them though, I doubt you were actually ever looking before.............or were you?

Haddockman wrote: »

Will google remove your house if you ask them?

I share all of your concerns Peasant.

No

peasant

Different angle then:D

How about instead of thieves, if the governement (in this case the EPA) were breathing down your neck because some geek surfing google all day on a work placement scheme discovered your illegal scrapyard?



Invasion of privacy? Yes/no? Tick as appropriate

Cuddlesworth

peasant wrote: »

But it gives them ideas ...and that's my point.

BTW ...I've just "driven" a bit of my daily drive on google earth and I've seen things on the screen that I never knew existed in years of driving past every day. Garages, garden sheds, back entrances etc ...all because the camera is up so high and peeks over hedges and into corners that you normally wouldn't see. I feel like a stalker now

Its still needle in a hay stack territory. While I don't deny its slightly handy for a thief, they still have to target and scope out your house regardless. You stand as much chance of being broken into now as you did when this wasn't out.

Haddockman wrote: »

Complaint being sent to the Data Protection Commissioner. My car numberplate is clearly visible.

. Do you drive down the street shouting that at everybody as well?

Atomic Pineapple

peasant wrote: »

How about instead of thieves, if the governement (in this case the EPA) were breathing down your neck because some geek surfing google all day on a work placement scheme discovered your illegal scrapyard?

If they were doing their job properly the EPA should have that cleaned up by now

Our man in Havana

I am going to have some fun with them, reports sent.

Found this:

Blurring technology and operational controls like image removal are among the ways in which we ensure that an individual's privacy is respected. We make it easy for users to ask to have photographs of themselves, their children, their cars or their houses completely removed from the product, even where the images have already been blurred.

We shall see.

Nonoperational

Can't see why you'd complain about this. It's very cool.

North Cork

They did my area in May / June 2009, local election posters are up

Cionád

North Cork wrote: »

They did my area in May / June 2009, local election posters are up

Are the candidates blurred?

Our man in Havana

Cionád wrote: »

Are the candidates blurred?

Yes, they are.

Atomic Pineapple

Haddockman wrote: »

I am going to have some fun with them, reports sent.

Found this:


We shall see.

But then it would be obvious your house is missing or even blurred and anyone looking at it with the wrong intentions will think you have something expensive to hide and that they've hit the jack pot.

JJJJNR

wtf I thought it was hilarious, such a bunch of tweed wearing fuddy duddys.

HOBBY RADIO LOL

robtri

invasion of privacy... by taking a picture of your house or car....
better shut down facebook them and imageshack in case someone takes a picture of your house or car or you posibly in the backgound of their holiday snaps and posts them on the net....

r3nu4l

Funnily enough my in-laws entire street is not visible on street view but all the streets around it are There's no reason why the Google car couldn't have down the street either. Strange!

Very cool.

Our man in Havana

There are a lot of Google apologists around.

Alanstrainor

JJJJNR wrote: »

wtf I thought it was hilarious, such a bunch of tweed wearing fuddy duddys.

HOBBY RADIO LOL

Infraction given.

Any more of that and people get a week off.

r3nu4l

Haddockman wrote: »

There are a lot of Google apologists around.

There's also a lot of people with too much time on their hands it would seem...
Fight da powah!!


Also, just noticed this

JJJJNR

Haddockman can your scanner pick up garda radios and taxi's radios, I always thought those devices were much more intrusive into people lives. :rolleyes:

Alanstrainor

JJJJNR wrote: »

Haddockman can your scanner pick up garda radios and taxi's radios, I always thought those devices were much more intrusive into people lives. :rolleyes:

Banned for a week.

This ends here.

Guy:Incognito

peasant wrote: »

not quite ...

Take my house for example. Drive past it, blink, and you'll miss it because it's pretty hidden. There's nowhere to stop really to check it out either.

The feckin' google camera however looks over the hedge and there are several shots in a row, offering different angles where you can clearly see the place at your leisure ...something you couldn't do in real life without coming down my driveway (and being barked at by the dogs).

So yes ...millions of people on the internet can potentially see something that most of my neighbours who just drive by haven't seen yet and won't ever see without stopping and coming into the driveway.

That in my view constitiutes an invasion of privacy.

In my particular case there's nothing interesting (or of value) to see ...but it's an invasion of privacy nonetheless.

EDIT:
Especially in rural locations this could have consequences. If you try to stake out houses in rural Ireland by car or on foot, you will be seen and taken note of ...now you can do it from the comfort of your armchairand pick a few spots that might warrant closer inspection

The cameras were no higher than the drivers seat in most large vans.

-Chris-

Haddockman wrote: »

So what?

Who says google will remove it?

Haddockman wrote: »

Will google remove your house if you ask them?

You can either hit the "report a problem" link on the image itself and one of the options is to report your house being visible. If that's not working you can email europe@google.com.

I'd probably give them the chance to resolve the issue before I went reporting them to the Data Protection Commissioner so you can "have some fun with them" tbh.

peasant

Stekelly wrote: »

The cameras were no higher than the drivers seat in most large vans.

Nope. My line of sight sitting in my van is a good bit higher than it is standing next to it. Yet I can't see from my van what the google camera saw of my house

Our man in Havana

Indeed, I shall see if they remove them first.