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Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow

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Re: Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow

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Post by uberman »

lorecore wrote: post #3
deepc4life wrote: post #2

I'd hope he did! I hope all of you do to. This isn't information you want so easily publicly available. It's a pretty easy request.

And yet there’s no way to get yourself blurred in Flock videos.

Yes, an here in lies the hypocrisy of our times where tech titans can have their information removed from public data sources (anyone remember the guy tracking Musk's plane?) while amassing staggering quantities of data about everyone else. Then have the gall to call for a "compromise" on their collection and selling of this data and our privacy.

Re: Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow

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Post by darrylb42 »

I don't really understand how blurring out a house adds privacy. Looking around my neighborhood on Google street view I sometimes find houses that are blurred, now that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious. Because I am physically close I can just look at the house if I wanted to. Someone "special" lives there.

Re: Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow

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Post by schiffern »

darrylb42 wrote: post #5

I don't really understand how blurring out a house adds privacy. Looking around my neighborhood on Google street view I sometimes find houses that are blurred, now that otherwise normal looking house is now suspicious. Because I am physically close I can just look at the house if I wanted to. Someone "special" lives there.

I'm confused. If he has nothing to hide he has nothing to fear, right?

Seems like some Good Samaritan should set up a mobile pole camera (or twelve) outside his house 24/7. Rest easy, it's all being done for his own safety!

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