Why you should blur your house on Google Maps

Google Maps can be a useful tool for getting you where you need to go, but it can also be a risk to your privacy.

While using Street View on Google Maps, you can get a 360 degree view of any area on the map, including views of the outside of people’s homes.

As Nelson Aguilar writes for CNET, Street View “makes it easier for stalkers or criminals to plan their way inside your home.”

Would-be-criminals could look at your home for cameras or possible points of entry without ever seeing your home in-person.

Luckily, you can avoid all of that by requesting for your home to be blurred out on Google Maps in just a few simple steps.

How to blur your house on Google Maps

Blurring your house on Google Maps is easy.

1. First, search for your home on maps.google.com and click on the Street View image that appears.

2. Next, at the bottom right of the photo, click on “Report a Problem.”

This will take you to a page entitled “Report Inappropriate Street View,” where you can request for your home to be blurred.

3. Select “My Home,” and type what you want to be blurred and why you want it blurred.

4. You will be required to give your email and click “I am not a robot,” before hitting submit.

5. Check your email regularly to get updates from Google Maps and to get notified when your request is denied or approved.

By PatriotmanPublished On: December 21, 2022Categories: Uncategorized8 Comments

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8 Comments

Gmyrna December 21, 2022 at 08:21

Thanks foe the suggestion, but don’t you think this would create a suspicion on people who are looking at houses on Google Map and seeing that yours is the only one blurred and hence makes you more likely to be a target?
- Patriotman December 21, 2022 at 09:08
  
  I don’t, personally. Could be blurred for a lot of reasons.
  
  Mine is blurred, for what it’s worth.
  - Patriotman December 21, 2022 at 09:11
    
    Also, ironically, just noticed my neighbor – who works for the Slomin Shield and has security cameras up – is also recently blurred.
    
    Did a quick travel around my neighborhood in Street view and saw about a dozen houses blurred
    - RP December 21, 2022 at 10:36
      
      As a water/wastewater/civil engineer, I supplement our field survey work a lot for underground utilities using Google Earth and Bing Maps, Google more than Bing, but I’ve been seeing a lot more homes blurred. Does not really matter that much to me as I’m mostly just looking at the public right of way and conditions of utilities and streets and driveways that we may be tearing up.
Gmyrna December 21, 2022 at 10:00

Interesting cause in my neighborhood no one has done it.
Gmyrna December 21, 2022 at 10:18

Two down sides of blurring your house in Gmap is 1) solar companys will have to come with their drones to do estimation for solar panels if you intend to have solar system. 2) In addition, if you try to put a wire antenna around or in your house as amateur radio operator, you will not be able to do calculation from Gmap
DakotaRumble December 21, 2022 at 11:57

Win! Google apparently only dared to drive down main street in my town… Probably heard banjos and decided to run.
J J December 21, 2022 at 13:45

Good info, thanks. Just submitted my house to be blurred. I’ve never been a fan of Google roaming the streets taking pictures of everything.