Posted on 07/10/2008 5:52:52 PM PDT by Chickensoup
Is there a place to write or call to remove one's address and satelite photo from Google Maps. I do not wish my satelite pictures nor my address to be listed.
I find it to be an invasion of privacy of the first degree.
LOL what the heck were you doing the day they took the pic?
It you are objecting to Google Streetview, then there are challenges pending. But, if you are talking about aerial overflight views, they are perfectly legal.
No, Barbara Streisand feels like you do.....
I’m guessing it would be a stalker’s paradise.
It’s kind of scary.
I would guess the only homes not on the site are those of the Google elite and their political pals.
Everyone else is just so much chum.
Moooooooooommmmmmmm! Billy keep looking at me!!!!!!!! Make him stop!
It you are objecting to Google Streetview, then there are challenges pending. But, if you are talking about aerial overflight views, they are perfectly legal.
I didnt say they were illegal, I just want to be removed from the maps. Where would I begin to address this. It is a tremendous invasion of privacy to those of us who value our privacy and have paid dearly for it.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. BABs or not, I do not want to particpate in Google’s mapping game. I want out.
Aerial maps have been ruled NOT an invasion of privacy by the courts.
I notice that doesn't happen anymore.
Well, you could try asking Google, but they might say no. I'm not sure you have any recourse beyond that.
Google is scrubbing any negative Obama press. Someone should come up with a conservative search engine to combat google’s liberal bias.
I’m guessing it would be a stalker’s paradise.
It is a stalkers and robbers paradise, no one would know my house is back here and now google screws it up. I want out.
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I would guess the only homes not on the site are those of the Google elite and their political pals.
Well I am not an elite. I am just me.
I want out. Doesnt anyone else find it objectionable. it isnt like we couldnt find things BEFORE Google maps.
You will need to phone the US Geological Survey and the French private firm that does landmapping - because Google isn’t the only one getting aerial or orbital maps from them..
Microsoft, Mapquest, and Yahoo have similar products.
Moooooooooommmmmmmm! Billy keep looking at me!!!!!!!! Make him stop!
Billy isnt looking at me. He is invading my privacy.
Aerial maps have been ruled NOT an invasion of privacy by the courts.
Any particular makeup on that court. Is this a leftist thing?
Want to see scary...try zabasearch.com. It will give your birthday, your address (present and priors), your phone number...and for a fee, you can get more info including cell phones, etc.
My work involves validating online orders placed through our business’ shopping cart, and if something looks fishy, you’d be surprised at the amount of info I can get on a person to verify they are who they say they are and aren’t using a stolen cc and having it shipped to another address. Most people I can confirm w/out having to use a fee per service site...the info is out there.
Send the address to the Iranians and tell them that it is Dick Cheney’s “undisclosed location”. When things go hot your address will be removed from Google - and everything else.
What is your address and I’ll take it up with them for you.
Just Private Mail me your address and credit card information. I'll get right on it.
If you’re talking about your actual street address, that’s not technically a “thing” that you’d be considered to own. It’s a locater system used by your county or state, which is public information.
If you want, you could move into a remote cabin off of the road grid. Your address would refer to the nearest road, which wouldn’t necessarily provide many clues as to your actual location.
Well, you could try asking Google, but they might say no. I’m not sure you have any recourse beyond that.
How do you ask Google? I coulnt find an address or an customer email?
Nope, you’re one in three hundred million. Just a single bird in the flock, and birds flock so to remain individually unseen.
Are there actually 300 million who want to be removed from google maps? I doubt too many think about it. I see this as being even more aversive than telemarketers.
How many years have you been protesting the residential phone book?
I AM off the road. No one knew I was here until Google maps. There is now a satalite picture of my house on google. I am a good half mile from the road,
Yes it still does work that way, I just tried it!
Any fool can drive down a street and see an address and a house.
Is that a violation of privacy?
I help prepare reports that use these aerial photos, and it gives me the creeps, too.I would definitely opt out if I could.
So how does it get done?
Put you adress in here.
Oh crap! I did my name and it not only gave my date of birth, but a map to my house!
Stalkers paradise! I also found four other addresses I used to live.
Well, in my neighborhood (northern VA), there are tons of spook sites that prevent Google from doing anything more than a 3k or so foot image. Anything below that gets an “imagery not available”...
No....more than that, there is now live video of your place, nice place too!
Nice pool....who is that on the raft?
You might try putting a giant photograph of an empty field on your roof.
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Sheesh!!! Can I blow up the Internet now?!
I just saw that satellite map of my home and I could not believe the clarity and how it looked like it was taken from an airplane flying low. I was taken aback and happy I wasn’t sunbathing on my deck that day!
Is that a violation of privacy?
No, but no fool can drive down my private posted road without it being an invasion of privacy. The pictures on the Google maps show what is down the private road.
Can’t remember where, but it was back in the 1950s.
Thing is, if nothing else, a lot of aerial maps are done by the government for legitimate surveying or scientific purposes. Those survey photos are public domain as they were paid for by tax dollars and do not link any individual to a structure.
If you want to see something non-Google that does the same thing, http//www.terraserver-usa.com
By the way, the aerial photos you are complaining about were often available in the 1980s at local libraries or town halls/halls of record.
Such is life.
The way I figure it, since there are, what?, a hundred million homes on these google maps in this country alone, it’s not very likely that anyone will focus on any particular house.
It is quite something, however. We have a small frog pond behind our house, and it shows up very clearly on google.
I actually thought that clinton’s re-numbering of all our mailboxes was much more sinister. The way it’s done, he could have sent in FEMA to our local village center and they would have known exactly how to set up their mortars to hit all our houses, just by checking out the street numbers. Our house is exactly 0.748 miles from the crossroads where the numbering starts, for instance, because our street number is 748.
How’s that for paranoia?
Your local tax authority did. So did your county planning office, as well as anyone that you have service or a permit with.
Got electricity? Gas? Water? Then you’re on record, some of which are public domain, and you can be found.
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