US News North Oaks tells Google Maps: Keep out - we mean it

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You can look at almost anything on Google. Just don't try to sneak a peek of the homes in the private community of North Oaks.

The city of 4,500 residents has demanded that Google Maps remove images of North Oaks homes from the website's Street View feature, where any Internet user can glimpse a home from the nearest road.

North Oaks' unique situation, in which the roads are privately owned by the residents and the city enforces a trespassing ordinance, may have made it the first city in the country to request that the online search engine remove images from Google Maps.

Read more of the story here.
 
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I'd love to make such a request to Google now for my house. Imagine showing it off:

"Yeh, you see that black speck right there? That's me!"
 
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Hmm... I'm sending requests that the US be taken off. As a resident and tax payer, I do NOT want foreigners looking at MY country because THEY are lesser than me and therefore not worthy of such amazingness.
 
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Seb! said:
Yeah because thieves go to Google Maps to look for houses to steal from.
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He never said that; the news article is giving them publicity which could attract burglars.
 
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I'm glad, google is really taking over our privacy, soon the going to rule the world xD.
 
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n[u]ll said:
I'm glad, google is really taking over our privacy, soon the going to rule the world xD.
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Well a few years back when the government was collecting search info from browsers that was linked to individuals, Google was the only one that wouldn't give the info up. :thup:
 
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Looking now....
EDIT: Nope. DAM YOU UNCLE SAM! ME WANT TO SEE LITTLE GREEN MEN
 
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Just finished googling North Oaks =D
Pretty shitty too.

Area 51
 
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sqrage said:
Well a few years back when the government was collecting search info from browsers that was linked to individuals, Google was the only one that wouldn't give the info up. :thup:
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Doesn't change what I said, 'cause they still know the info, but it's good to know that :p, kinda changes my view on them being all crazy take over the world-ish. :D
 
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