Blur Homes On Google Street View This Way To Keep Privacy Safe

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YOGYAKARTA - Google Street View was trending on Twitter some time ago after being protested for displaying a portrait of a resident's house in Tangerang. The reason, it is considered a violation of his privacy.

This also made a number of netizens worry that their house was also shown on Google Street View, even though they didn't want that to happen, so they tried to make their home or private place displayed by Google.

To keep your home photos private from showing on Google Street View, there's a way you can do that and this article will explain. Users can also do it easily without having to make reports or other things that drain time and energy.

Google Street View itself has technology that allows people to blur images of houses, vehicle license plates, or other personal photos that the owner does not want to be shown to the general public.

However, you must go through the process of blurring your personal items so that they are not displayed by Google Street View manually. If you want to blur a photo of a house or other place, you can follow the steps that the VOI team has prepared below.

How to Blur Place Photos in Google Street View

Homes or other private places that the public doesn't want the public to know can be blurred by their owners in Google Street View. The trick, you can open "Google Maps" and enter the address of the house you want to blur the photo.

After that, you can enter "Street View" mode by clicking on the yellow human icon in the lower right corner of the screen. Then drag the icon to the street in front of your house based on the image on the map.

After finding your house in "Street View", to blur it the user can click the "Report a Problem" menu in the lower right corner of your Google Maps screen.

The user will be taken to the next page to mark the house using a red box. Make sure that only your home is included in the box, as other people may want their house to be shown by Google.

At the bottom of the menu, Google will ask you why you are blurring your home photo. You can also write down the reasons in the column provided to explain your objection.

In addition to filling in the reason for blurring the house, you are also asked to fill in a number of fields. That's to justify your reasoning and ensure that the blurry house is where you live.

Next, you can enter your email address and click 'Submit' to register a request with Google to blur the house or other place you blurred out.

After that, Google will process the request and you can wait until Google agrees not to show photos of your house in Street View.