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However, there is plenty of information someone can gauge by looking at specific images. Google lets you send a request to blur your house on Google Maps and Street View. Street View on ...

After privacy complaints, Google is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however.

Users can click the 'report a problem' button under the Street View image to ask Google to blur the image.

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.

"We have developed cutting-edge face and license plate blurring technology that is designed to blur identifiable faces and license plates within Google-contributed imagery in Street View.

Google Maps Street View provides users with on-the-ground views of what locations around the world look like. However, there’s much more to the tool than just mundane images of the planet.

(NEXSTAR) – It’s not uncommon to scroll through Google Street View and find a home that’s been blurred from view at the request of the homeowner, whether for privacy or security reasons.

Some privacy advocates, including the influential Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggested that Google blur the images of people. That move, the critics pointed out, would not inhibit Street View ...