cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/9313
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/9311
In case you ever wanted to blur your house from google street view you can. A little privacy i suppose, its pretty easy. you dont need a reason to do it. This probaly the only thing google lets opt out of which is cool.
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This way they could know who’s devices’ fingerprint is attached to a certain address. Another way to sell customer’s data to ads companies.
Yeah, they claim only property owners or tenants can request it, which means I would have to prove that to be compliant w/ their policy.
Anyone can take pictures of my house. That’s 100% within the law, provided they take it from outside my property. So to blur it, I have to give them PII (which they probably have anyway), but it doesn’t actually stop them from changing their policy and unblurring it later.
So yeah, I’m not going to bother w/ this.
This unironicly lowers property value. Buyers like scouting out new homes on street view.
It also supposedly makes you a bigger target for would-be burglars who scout google maps for targets. It makes your house stand out and makes them think you have something valuable to hide.
Its more like tragic Irony.
Tragic irony, a prominent literary device, involves a poignant disjunction between the audience’s awareness of critical information and the obliviousness of the characters within a narrative.
