How to Stop Google Maps From Displaying Your Home to Strangers
A straightforward privacy request to Google can remove your home from Street View entirely. Here's the step-by-step process.
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Type almost any residential address into Google Maps, switch to Street View and you'll find a high-resolution photograph of the front of the property - the door, the windows, the cars in the driveway, the layout of the yard. For most homeowners, that level of detail being publicly accessible to anyone with an internet connection is a privacy concern that doesn't get discussed nearly as much as it should. Google does offer a way to blur your property out of Street View entirely, the request is free, and once it's approved the blur is permanent. Here's how to submit one.
The good news is that you don't have to just accept this exposure as a fact of life. You can actually force Google to censor your home, permanently blurring...
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