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Is it legal for Google Earth to go down private roads?
Sept. 26, 2013 | vanity

Posted on 09/26/2013 1:53:56 PM PDT by bgill

I noticed Google Earth has found it's way into private roadways. These roads are not city or county maintained but privately owned and maintained by the property owners. Can GE legally publish street views of properties on private roads? I also notice that they aren't blurring out address numbers or names on mailboxes like they used to. When you can tell if cherry tomatoes in someone's garden are ripe or not, that's too close and personal.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; google; googleearth; privacy
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Before I forget, a big howdy out to NSA!
1 posted on 09/26/2013 1:53:56 PM PDT by bgill
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Unless Google can open gates, your ‘private’ drives and roads ain’t private.

Just sayin’.


2 posted on 09/26/2013 1:55:47 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: bgill

That sounds like prima facie evidence of trespassing.

If you want to ask the prosecutor to do that for you.

But I’m no lawyer.


3 posted on 09/26/2013 1:56:20 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Ted Cruz for President!)
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To: bgill
Dated. Not sure if currently accurate.

Google finds no privacy on private roads

4 posted on 09/26/2013 1:56:54 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: bgill

You’re out of milk.


5 posted on 09/26/2013 1:57:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: bgill
I'd guess that as long as it's accessible to the public without well-posted signs and/or barriers, you'd have a hard time proving trespassing.
6 posted on 09/26/2013 1:57:58 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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They were photographing military bases until the military put a stop to it. I believe it stopped after they found a terrorist organization was researching a base.

I suspect that until somebody sues and wins they’ll keep at it, private or no.


7 posted on 09/26/2013 1:57:59 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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8 posted on 09/26/2013 1:58:14 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Has to be posted “No Trespassing” or the Google folks told to beat it and they refuse to leave.


9 posted on 09/26/2013 1:59:50 PM PDT by henkster (democrats will sacrifice the lives of our servicemen so 0bama doesn't look bad.)
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To: bgill

Think of all the stars’ private weddings! The road is only two dimensionally private. From the air, not much is private. You could try building some Quonset huts.


10 posted on 09/26/2013 2:01:31 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: bgill

Google=NSA=CIA=NWO=Illuminati=Lucifer=Satan


11 posted on 09/26/2013 2:04:45 PM PDT by JohnKinAK
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To: SatinDoll

I can Zoom Down to My House, in Charlevoix, Michigan, and see My House, and My Privately Owned Road, From U.S. 31.
My 2003 Dodge Hemi Ram Pickup is in the Driveway, as is My 1987 Chevy Plow Truck.
So, Yes, apparently, Google Earth can go anywhere.


12 posted on 09/26/2013 2:09:38 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: bgill

Absolutely.

It’s trespassing.


13 posted on 09/26/2013 2:09:49 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: bgill

Not if they make past the claymore’s...


14 posted on 09/26/2013 2:10:39 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Liberty Valance

Too funny!


15 posted on 09/26/2013 2:12:31 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post))
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To: bgill

Are they the Google Earth satellite pictures or the Google Map road level van pictures? If the former there’s no problem because nothing traverse the private road. The later depends on how private road is, is it marked, is it gated, or do people just know.


16 posted on 09/26/2013 2:12:32 PM PDT by discostu (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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But not street view. . .I think. That would require them to actually be on your land.


17 posted on 09/26/2013 2:12:38 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: bgill

Google,aerial and ground..Hmmmm may be 2 different issues here?

That tomato if in a ground lvl horizontal shot I think would be “trespass”.


18 posted on 09/26/2013 2:13:07 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: bgill
Before I forget, a big howdy out to NSA!

Ha, funny! And it would be funnier if it wasn't so true.

19 posted on 09/26/2013 2:14:21 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Still crazy after all these beers.)
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To: fwdude

Yep. If you want it to be private, it’s your responsibility to make a reasonable effort to keep the public out.


20 posted on 09/26/2013 2:18:05 PM PDT by Boogieman
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