So I'm working on my Video Project this weekend and I found this funny video. It made me laugh because my husband swears that a few months ago, he was getting out of his car, and the "Google" videographers were trolling through the neighborhood. Now when you enter my address, you see a blur of a person in front of my house that my husband swears is him, because he saw them as they were passing by.



How do you feel about Google Earth and Google Maps having a specific picture of your home for anyone in the world to see? What happens if they happen to drive by on an off week that you haven't mowed your lawn? How long with those images stay there?



For example, I was looking up an address for research on a potential business opportunity, and unfortunately, this was the case. The person's house was what seemed to be in a state of disrepair. It was not kept up and quite scary. Thank goodness my lawn was clean cut the day they drove through our neighborhood!! But what are the implications for Google? Are they putting innocent by-standers on the chopping block as they mosey on through your neighborhood? Have you checked out your lawn on Google Maps? Maybe you should. And what can we do to change the images if we aren't happy with those on the web? What if we don't want images of our homes on the internet anyway? What rights do we have?

I think they should at least be required to notify the home owners, renters, tenents, etc. prior to the "drive by-s" that result in permanent (?) images being available on the web.

Take a peek...






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgV6-gnQaE&feature=fvsr