GOOGLE MAP UPDATE: A Yonkers Police Department source says that New York Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins has joined President Donald J Trump security level, by also having Google obscure her private office.
While you can see the White House quite clearly on Google Maps, the Oval Office, where President Trump does is work, is colored white.
While you may not be able to see the Oval Office President Trump uses on Google Maps, the White House swimming pool does look very inviting.
It is sort of like how the Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s house in Washington State has been blurred on Google Maps Street View.
Google Maps Street View gives you the unparalleled ability to go places you’d never thought you’d go and to see things you never thought you’d see, but on of those places is not NY Senate Majority Leader Cousins office in Yonkers.
First launched in 2007 in the United States and later expanded to other countries, the Google Maps feature delivers an almost virtual reality-experience through stitched-together panoramic images taken mainly by cameras mounted on the roofs of Google cars driving up and down streets.
While many love Google Street View, the technology has come under fire by privacy advocates who point to instances of images showing people engaged in activities they might not want made public, such as men leaving strip clubs.
There’s no hiding from Google – at least in several U.S. cities, where the company has taken snapshots up and down the streets in America and made the images available through its online maps.
They even caught a man apparently trying to hop over an apartment building gate in a hilarious Google Street View image.
In 2008, Google has began to blur faces in its Street View in an attempt to better balance privacy and the usefulness of a driver’s-eye view of the world..
The technology uses a computer algorithm to scour Google’s image database for faces, then blurs them,
Dealing with privacy–both legal requirements and social norms–is hard but necessary, especially in a time when the he FBI has received information indicating “armed protests” are being planned at all 50 state capitols and the US Capitol in Washington, DC in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20th.