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akakakak
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Google Street View image of a house predicts car a...
There's far too many blurred houses on Google Maps in Germany, often because a single tenant opted-out.
It's the 21st century equivalent of hiding under the blanket to protect from the evil spirits.
yabadabadoes
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A portion of the population works in fields like psych where there is standard advice to use unlisted phone numbers to deter stalkers. Given 10 tenants, it is likely one has a good reason to make it harder to picture where they live.
paggle
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No, it’s the 21st century reality of needing to protect yourself from insurance companies looking to spy on your house to set your insurance rates.
zmzrr
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Literally hiding under a blanket: the day blurring out houses becomes widespread, they will just sent a human to look at your house.
paggle
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That’s totally fine. They’ve been able to do that for 200 years and it hasn’t proved worth the cost.
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Or use a data provider that doesn't allow opt-out and has no publicly available interface.
dsfyu404ed
on Dec 13, 2019
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Good. That imposes a cost on whoever wants to look at someone's house and provides a disincentive to do it without a good reason.
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It's the 21st century equivalent of hiding under the blanket to protect from the evil spirits.