Google Is Photographing Lithuania’s Streets Again. Here’s How to Hide What You Do Not Want Shown
Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Google is collecting new Street View images on Lithuanian streets through October.
- Residents can check what appears at their address on Google Maps and request that homes, yards, cars, or other details be blurred.
Google cars are once again photographing Lithuania’s streets, collecting new Street View images across the country until October.
Residents can check what other people may see by entering their home address on Google Maps.
If a publicly visible house, yard, car, or another detail should not be shown to everyone, residents can ask Google to hide it. Bitė Lietuva explains how to submit the request in a press release.
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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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