Google Street View has become a security threat

WayneF

Senior Member
Google Maps Street View is starting to drive down residential alleys recording.
The alley at my house is not on line yet, but this is across the street from me:

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The camera is high above their car, and it sees over the fences. That's a shadow of the camera on the ground. I choose a real plain show-nothing view here, but you can see a lot of things if you drive the Street View around in the alleys. So far, coverage seems wide spread in one direction from me, but not yet in the other direction.

I don't see any point of this, it appears to be only a security threat. I am told we can click the Report a Problem, and request our address be blurred out.

I don't know how wide spread, but at least in area of the Dallas suburbs.
 

nikonpup

Senior Member
rent a very bad dog who can stick his head over the fence when they come by. The kids in the
neighborhood probably have check your street and overhead view already. Unless u live under a rock and have no internet everything we do is open for viewing.
 

jdeg

^ broke something
Staff member
I don't see how this is a security threat. The only difference from someone walking down the alley and looking over your fence is they can now see an old image of the same thing from their computer. If it was a live feed of your back yard, yeah, that's a problem.

Is this more of a privacy concern? Security is maybe the wrong word here.
 

Wolfeye

Senior Member
I'm reminded of a house for sale ad I saw once, which apparently used the city assessor's image of the house - a drive by affair that really only cared to document the house - which had a picture of their dog in it. They had to add to their description on the real estate site "dog not included".

:)
 

mikew_RIP

Senior Member
Doesn't look to work from a link but if you click grimsby on the map then next to the sea at cleethorpes you can follow the journey via virtual at the bottom of the page
 

skater

New member
Apparently, tall people are security threats, too.

My house has been on streetview for 9 years now - they even updated the original imagery a while back. I have yet to experience any kind of incident at all, let alone as a result of being on streetview.
 

carguy

Senior Member
I would agree it would be 'better' to have the camera in a lower position to not see over fences.

Regarding the blurred addresses, in our area that is a standard operating procedure. I also think it is a joke as well...

That said, my father in law was caught on his driveway the last two times Google rolled by his house LOL
 

WayneF

Senior Member
I don't see how this is a security threat. The only difference from someone walking down the alley and looking over your fence is they can now see an old image of the same thing from their computer. If it was a live feed of your back yard, yeah, that's a problem.

Is this more of a privacy concern? Security is maybe the wrong word here.

Maybe it is privacy, but a walker or normal driver cannot see over the fences, and does not publish it online, along with the address location. I don't like it, and see absolutely no purpose of it. One purpose of the fence is privacy.
 

WayneF

Senior Member
Where does the "security threat" come in to play here?

Well, if it were me, I wouldn't want this invitation broadcast on the internet, along location address.

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It is all otherwise well hidden by the fence. This effort seems intentionally intrusive. Peeping Tom.
 

skater

New member
Well, if it were me, I wouldn't want this invitation broadcast on the internet, along location address.

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It is all otherwise well hidden by the fence. This effort seems intentionally intrusive. Peeping Tom.

That looks to be a construction project that's likely done and gone by the time the photos get published. Someone driving a truck could see over the fence, too. I'm still not clear on what the security threat is.

And, don't forget the overhead imagery that covers much of the developed world...
 

carguy

Senior Member
Well, if it were me, I wouldn't want this invitation broadcast on the internet, along location address.

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It is all otherwise well hidden by the fence. This effort seems intentionally intrusive. Peeping Tom.

I follow you here and concur.

While the google maps overhead view is there, it does not show near this level of detail.
The security concern is that people who may not see something in the yard may well see it while surfing google maps and attract a threat of theft or security that would likely not otherwise exist.

A privacy fence is built for just that...
 

pforsell

Senior Member
This may be off topic, but what on earth are these fenced-in pens in these pictures? I guess holding human beings in those must be prohibited by the Geneva convention?
 

WayneF

Senior Member
The satellite is pretty far away, not as good a view, trees block much more, and it is certainly not unique to me. Simply not as personal as driving down my alley to peer over my fence. I see absolutely no argument for the alley thing.
 

480sparky

Senior Member
Let's take away anything that allows a view over 6'9" then. Ladders. Drones. Pole Pixies on painter poles. Flatbed trucks. Stilts. Mirrors on sticks. Tossable cameras. Ad nauseum ad infinitum.
 

WayneF

Senior Member
Let's take away anything that allows a view over 6'9" then. Ladders. Drones. Pole Pixies on painter poles. Flatbed trucks. Stilts. Mirrors on sticks. Tossable cameras. Ad nauseum ad infinitum.

Right, you've got it now. When those come up with the plan to start driving down alleys peering over fences, and then posting it all online, with the corresponding address locations, then by all means, let's do exactly that. They are up to no good. :)
 

480sparky

Senior Member
Right, you've got it now. When those come up with the plan to start driving down alleys peering over fences, and then posting it all online, with the corresponding address locations, then by all means, let's do exactly that. They are up to no good. :)

Why wait until they come down your alley? Banish 'em all right now and be done with it.
 
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