The Google Street View Car may have captured an image of your face, house, car, or license plate and displayed it for everyone and their mother to see. This may raise your privacy concerns or maybe you were just having a bad hair day. But never fear, you can have the intrusive image blurred at no cost – other than the annoyance of notifying Google.
Google (sort of) respects your privacy, and usually blurs identifying personal details through some mindless high tech software. But you can also ask Google to have images of you, your children, cars or houses completely removed from the Google Street View even if the images have already been blurred.
This is how we do it:
- First go to the Google Street View Map image that is bothering you.
- Zoom it in totally to the max.
- Click on the “Report a Problem” link in the bottom left corner of the concerned map screen.
- With your mouse click on the red box and drag it over the part of the image that is bugging you.
- Fill in the captcha and click submit.