Privacy

Your privacy and security are important to us. The Street View team takes a number of steps to help protect the privacy and anonymity of individuals when images are collected for Street View, including blurring faces and number plates. You can contact the Street View team if you see an image that should be protected or if you see a concerning image. Learn more by watching our video or by reading the information below.



Privacy Features

Public Access Only

Street View contains imagery from public roads, which is no different from what you might see driving or walking down the street. Imagery of this kind is available in a wide variety of formats for cities all around the world. In particular cases, Google will partner with an organisation such as Disneyland Paris to schedule imagery collection of their property.

Street View images are not in real time

Our images show only what our vehicles were able to see on the day that they drove past the location. Afterwards, it takes at least a few months to process the collected images before they appear online. This means that images that you look at on Street View could be anywhere from a few months to a few years old.

Individuals and licence plates are blurred

We have developed cutting-edge face and licence plate blurring technology that is applied to all Street View images. This means that, if one of our images contains an identifiable face (for example, that of a passer-by on the street) or an identifiable licence plate, our technology will blur it out automatically, meaning that the individual or the vehicle cannot be identified. If our detectors missed something, you can easily let us know.

Reporting Issues

You can request further blurring of a specific image

We provide easily accessible tools allowing users to request further blurring of any image that features the user, their family, their car or their home. In addition to the automatic blurring of faces and licence plates, we will blur the entire car, house or person when a user makes this request for additional blurring. Users can also request the removal of images that feature inappropriate content (for example, nudity or violence).

Report a problem

How to report a concern

If you've found an image that you would like to be blurred further or an image that you believe contains objectionable content, just follow these steps:

  1. Locate the image in Street View.
  2. Click "Report a problem" at the bottom left of the image window.
  3. Complete the form and click "Submit".

That's it. We'll review your report promptly.