I am afraid there is not, Google does not keep the non-blurred images for long and they do not provide copies of the images on request.” Is there a way to find and purchase a non blurred copy? It would be very comforting to me to really see him.” Treebles, an “Advanced Troubleshooter” lamented, “Sorry for your loss. On Google’s Product Forums help page, there are over 240 posts with titles like “Getting our house unblurred,” and “Impossible to remove blur.” One of the saddest posts is titled “Unblurred photo of face in street view.” User JamesBunting1 asked, “There is a photo of my now deceased father on street view that has his face blurred out. Others have noticed this issue and have frantically sought to reverse the blur. I have attempted every kind of contact with Google and they just tell me I’m SOL.” Another responded, “Came here to say this. “Beware – previous owner blurred mine, I cannot unblur! Have tried two or three times,” wrote one user. To this day, only major cities like Berlin and Frankfurt have fully mapped areas, and many of those photos date back to before 2010.īut the comments on the Reddit post veered in the opposite direction. That same year, 3 percent of Germans voted against Google Maps camera cars being allowed on streets, so Google abandoned the Street View project in Germany. In 2010, the NYPD used Street View images of drug sales in front of a Brooklyn bodega as evidence to arrest and indict seven people accused of being in a heroin-selling ring. Outside of obvious privacy issues, Google has inadvertently caught some people in embarrassing (and illegal) scenarios over the years. Google, for example, has always blurred the fronts of domestic violence shelters to protect victims. There is any number of reasons why someone might want to do so. Last month, a Reddit post in a group for posting life tips detailed how users who are unhappy with Google’s Street View pictures can request them to be blurred on Maps. But recently, the internet has noticed something peculiar about Google Maps: Once something gets blurred, there’s no turning back. It’s no wonder then that dozens of legal disputes on several continents have forced the company to now allow users to blur Street View and Satellite View images taken without their consent. Over 1 billion people use Google Maps every year.
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