If you lived in an Eichler home, why would you want it blurred out of Google Street View?

[ovrphil]

My thoughts that don't blur any lines or houses:

1) Blurring draws attention to the house or building. Maybe we need an option to super-impose a photo of a home we'd prefer to own?

2)While burring pays more homage to the right of privacy and less to establishing it, paying to have an unlisted phone number was more effective.

3)The people who blurred their Eichler home had a 50% increase in TP'ing and drive by stop and stares. heehee.

 

[tolivac]

Photographing homes-if the phtographer is NOT on your property-not much if anything can be done.BUT if the cameraman TRESSPASSES on your property to take the shots-then yes,he can be arrested.This was under photographers rights.There was a video about it some years ago on YouTube-was in the section on people taking pictures of abandoned properties and even homes that were occupied-like former movie or former photo shot areas.And police CANNOT ask you to give them your camera or film.They can tell you to move on.

 

[whirlcool]

Yes, that's exactly how it works. Google makes it a point that the camera vehicles never shoot photos while on private properties.

Another reason I mentioned to call the cops was that the person who owns the house may be throwing a hissy fit that somebody looked at their house without their permission and paramedics may need to be called to return them to a normal state of mind. Sorry, I just couldn't resist.