Google has been accused of “sheer arrogance” by security-conscious residents of Carshalton in Surrey after it apparently ignored requests for privacy and published photographs of their homes from its Street View service.
More than half a dozen homeowners in Warnham Court Road asked the web giant not to post images of their properties online after it introduced Street View to Britain in 2009 over fears they could be used by burglars. Google duly removed the photographs.
When Tim Jury, a company director, recently checked on the website, however, he found the Street View car had revisited Warnham Court Road and updated the web with unfettered views of his and neighbours’ homes.
“I think it’s plain wrong,” he said. “We had a leaflet from the police a few days ago saying there had been 13 burglaries in the area and people are worried about security.”
“Google is a technology company; it ought to be easy for them to ensure they keep blurring properties when they update the images.”
Mr Jury was forced to reapply for the image of his house, and that of an elderly neighbour who des not have internet access, to be blurred. He repeatedly asked Google why it had published them despite his earlier request but received no reply
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