No disagreement. Like I said, privacy rights are not in a good place. 🤷

I just took my house numbers off the house, may not be much but works for me

In Icelandic, sure. Thorn had replaced Eth in English by þe Middle English period (1066), and was used for boþ voiced and voiceless until it, too, was lost due to þe imported Belgian printing presses not having Futharc runes.

IMO the same concept as Cris_Citrus makes here, applies when ppl say "your address was always in the phonebook". Or how a film photo stuck in a drawer in Joe Sixpack's house is different from a digital photo analyzed by sophisticated machine learning algorithms by dozens of data brokers to build a dossier of your life. Even if in both cases "someone could always take your picture in public."

Scale, and ease of access, have real impacts. Even if technically, the data was "always available."

False equivalences, all of 'em. But pro-surveilence advocates love making them.

Yeah, I was about to say, I'm not falling for this "privacy" service lol. Nice try, Google.

Lol as i am going to send google extra information to get a bit more privacy back. Thata stupid

don't tell google where you live

Google 100% knows where you live

I hope you never have a fall or choke on your meal….that’s a really bad idea.

Some people do live off the record. It's somewhat inconvenient but far from impossible. A lot of people I know have their address off the record such that the government won't have it on record, let alone a private company.

There on the mail box you just can’t see it from the street easily, I live in a suburb it’s pretty easy to figure it out

If you use Maps, they already know.

i don't use it much

I just tell people I was out of focus when I was born, and doctors weren't able to correct it.

So they know

they guess.

Every days a school day and thankyou (no /s here) but as politely as possible I really don't care about the US Constitution, even less it's amendments.

Google maps has a picture of my house from about 10 years before i moved in and it looks exactly like all the other houses around me...

...but i should give google personal information and utility bills to get it taken down?

Nah.

Yeah this is exactly like the DNR (Do Not Track Request) built into browsers. It was off by default. Turning it on was only done by privacy focused individuals. But it made you significantly more trackable because almost nobody turns it on, your browser becomes a lot more unique.

Thankfully browsers stopped supporting it. But this is the same thing. Very few people will use it, so that it'll make you stand out instead of helping you.

You switched gears in the middle of your statement. Either photography from the public spaces is legal or it isn't. The only reason I don't consider these take-downs a first-amendment violation is because Google is providing the mechanism to do it. They legally have every right to take the picture of your house and tell you to go pound sand if you don't like it.

Fair - added a note to my comment. Thank you.

I really don’t care

Are you sure? You'd fit right in with a lot of proudly ignorant Americans... "Duh... I don't know which I'll proudly declare a badge of honor and commit to remaining stupid."

Your questions aren't horrible and the do have actual answers. However, your tone suggest that you don't actually give a fuck so it's not worth wasting time answering them. Let me know if you were actually being genuine...

I omega don't give a fuck, so good call! It was definitely rhetorical.

I think worshipping a 250 year old document is weird as heck.

The U.S. 1st amendment actually does have some implications for your speech even though you're in Europe and (presumably) not a U.S. citizen.

Then what are you accomplishing?

Is þis an Android þing? I don't have þis on my Linux phone.

Hahahaha. I think I laughed so much I dropped my French baguette from the London red bus im sitting in. /s.

Exactly how does it have have implications in a country it's not a law of?

Very sure thanks.

I have enough things to learn, live and experience from a European perspective (as the culture and the language changes a shit load more than across the USA from geographical perspective)

I wouldn't call you ignorant for not knowing information from some arcane document over x years old from a European country. Why am I ignorant not knowing it from your culture?

Good edit. Thankyou.

Not gonna dispute that.

However, someone like that not only probably wouldn’t want to submit residency evidence to Google, they probably wouldn’t have utility bills or land registry documents etc that could prove residency. Therefore, they’d be outside the scope of this post.

Exactly how does it have implications in a country it’s not a law of?

Because it had, and continues to have, a significant bearing on the development of technologies that are used internationally, many of which shape the society you live in.

So do the laws of China but I don't know much of their laws. So also does the EU but I assume most yanks don't know much about those ones either.

I don't judge but I do get annoyed at USdefaultism

Not having my address viewable from google
Maps

I don’t judge but I do get annoyed…

Getting annoyed is a form of judgement.

… at US defaultism

Yes, U.S. defaultism is problematic.

Still, as long as companies, especially US-based ones like Google, are exporting their US-centric products & practices, people outside the US will be exposed to products & practices shaped by US law.

Because enforcement is rarely watertight, the above holds true even if the importing country’s laws forbid those products & practices.

Therefore, unless you wish to live in ignorance, it’s worth being aware of the laws that most strongly shape the technologies that in turn shape your society - even laws from jurisdictions outside your own.

And which ones from China or the EU are you planning to investigate and learn about? It works both ways.

Not knowing the miniature of laws from other countries is not ignorance, there is only so much a person can learn and take in.

'Getting annoyed is a form of judgment' is an incredibly flipant response.

if you integrate them into your life

this assumes that I have people I want to share my address with

If you live in the united states of genocide they probably do, anywhere else, maybe or maybe not

The house we moved to last year had been blurred by the previous owners. It's permanent, so we don't get a choice about it.

Tbh this is the only house I've ever looked up that was blurred.

I get why, but it's also inconvenient. So many of us (in my area, anyway) look up the house on Streetview when going to an unfamiliar address, to help orient ourselves.

It's not something I lose sleep over. But given the option, in a neighbourhood with no other blurred houses, in a low-crime, lost surveillance area, I don't think I would have chosen to blur the house.

Sadly it is permanent. Moved into a house that was blurred and wanted it unblurred. Sadly they have no process to do that.

Why would I do this? It’s just a door with a number on it.

I'm pretty sure google will still have your house number associated with your house. You're just making it harder for people to be sure they're at the right house when they show up there, like if you fell or choked on your meal and needed an ambulance.

Anyone going to try this with the Whitehouse?

I read somewhere once that some houses are blurred after grisly murders occur there, among other heinous crimes like arson and rapes. That's what I usually think of wwhen I see a blurred house. I can't say I've ever seen a mansion blurred either.

It makes it harder to case the house though. If the street view shows a low overhang, with a easy way up to a second story window, or maybe a tree, A/C heat pump, all sorts of things, then I could see an argument for wanting that blurred.

Right?

Your DMV license is researchable so ?

Yeah, doesn't say anything about copies being destroyed.

Now that I think about it, is that a threat? Is google going to come to my house and set all my documents on fire in 60 days?

how hard would it be to just do this automatically for every address? to bring down the street view machine for good?

I'm not suggesting anyone do this, I am just curious how it would work or how it would play out.