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Re: [LUG] We've been Street Viewed

 

Wow. I couldn't have been more wrong about the place. :P

On 11 March 2010 22:34, Martinus Scriblerus
<martinus.scriblerus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11 March 2010 22:30, Dan Dart <dandart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I think it was them, but someone in the UK (or was it a village in the
>> US? I forget now) were concerned about privacy and didn't want their
>> village photographed.
>
> "Residents in the village of Broughton, Buckinghamshire felt so
> strongly about what they called an intrusion of privacy that last year
> they formed a human chain to block a Google camera vehicle from
> driving down their streets.
>
> Google has taken steps to blur images of faces and car registrations.
>
> The company also provides a 'report a problem' button on the Street
> View website for users to flag up inappropriate or sensitive images to
> be reviewed and removed.
>
> This allows anyone to ask that images of themselves, their car or
> their house are erased from the service."
>
> http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/fpfalmouth/5057113.Google_Street_View_coverage_expands_to_cover_most_of_Cornwall/
>
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