“Everybody should check maps that show views of their house. It’s creepy. A person online can zoom in and identify obscured doors, windows, hidden access through back yards (etc). Criminals can use it to look for potential targets.”
That surprised me to see; this nonsense only ends when the bigwigs in government and industry have their stuff put out there. Ican’t believe there haven’t been rapes and murders assisted by these programs.
There probably have been. Criminals can find good target areas by knowing availability of escape routes.
Also, check your property tax website. Some have your house plans online. Ours used to have those but took them down.
For a criminal to use such data to facilitate commission of a crime, wouldn’t they still need to know an address to look for? If they already know the address of a potential victim, they don’t need Google to case the place. And if they don’t know the address, Google won’t help them find it.