Have you ever seen yourself in Youtube videos, where you wouldn’t have expected it? Do you see a Google car go by and start looking for yourself on Streetview?
I saw myself twice on Streetview - both times walking along the sidewalk of fairly busy streets. Once in Montreal (Canada) and once while on vacation in Perth (Australia). I had seen the car going by, but the Streetview images were only uodated about a year later and only lasted a couple of months.
I thought faces are blurred? Or are you accounting for that? I see the cars that capture the images occasionally, but the only place I’d remember to look for myself is at home, and I have not been in any of them.
I don’t know how I could possibly end up in a youtube video.
My son saw the Google car going by and chased after it, so for a while you could see him running through our yard and the neighbor’s yard on a few frames of Streetview. They have since updated their images and he is no longer in them.
My son’s face wasn’t blurred, but between him being in motion and the poor resolution of Streetview images you couldn’t really see his face very well.
Streetview did blur one of the bushes in front of my house for a while. I guess it was protecting the identity of one of the neighborhood cats.
I was been at a local club watching a band that was being videoed. The camera guy gave me a card with his YouTube address and yeah, there i was in the crowd shots.
I have been on YouTube when I expected it, because of sporting events where I was visible, but no, not otherwise there or streetview.
Faces are blurred on Google Streetview, yes.
While working at my old job, in the summer of 2011, I’d gone out to lunch with a couple of colleagues. As we left the building, we saw a Google camera car drive by. A few months later, there we were on Streetview – our faces were blurred, but the Yes concert t-shirt I’d been wearing that day was clearly visible. ;). (As that was in downtown Chicago, which gets updated pretty regularly, I was only in Streetview for a couple of years.)
I happened to look at my parents’ house on Streetview last year, and there’s my dad, walking out to their car, which was parked in the driveway.
That happened some years ago. My face was blurred which was kind of useless as I was riding the only handcycle in a 100 miles(est.). It was only for a couple of months before the street was re-photographed.
I wasn’t, but CtE was when they were walking home from school one day. Their face wasn’t blurred (that I remember) but even if it had been, I would have recognized them from the purple hoodie and the Steven Universe Cheeseburger backpack.
I saw the streetview car go by as I was standing at the corner of Broadway and Jefferson in downtown Portland ca. 2016. Looking at streetview afterwards I learned that I never did show up. So I’ve seen the car but the car didn’t see me.
My wife saw the streetview car drive through the intersection as she was waiting at a red light a few years ago. Sure enough a few months later there her car was, in all its ugly glory. A few months after that it was, replaced by more recent imagery.
I saw an apple camera car drive past as i was getting into my car …
but i haven’t got an apple device to look on.
Or are you limiting it to google …?
The first time Streetview went through my neighborhood you can see me driving into my garage. I didn’t notice them at the time and it has since been supplanted.
I am in dozens of professional and amateur live music videos on youtube. Sometimes it’s very clearly me and other times it’s my silhouette. I go to a ton of live music and I am very often in the front.
Probably 10 years ago a group of us gritted our teeth and took shovels on our dirtbikes up to the last snow drift that people were going around off-trail. We were fighting hard for these trails and didn’t need pictures of people putting ruts in the tundra (we lost the trails anyway). The drift was about 10’ tall, so it took a while. For a couple years on Google Earth you could zoom in and see our bikes lying on the trails and all the snow we were shoveling downhill…
I went to see Brandi Carlile at the Winterland Ballroom. I noticed some people were taking videos with cameras so the next day I looked to see if any had been uploaded, and sure enough some had been. In one of them was a swing by shot of me.
I was overtaken by the TomTom car when I was out on the bike last summer. I don’t have TomTom satnav, but if anyone does and fancies playing along, I’ll tell you where I was; and if we can screen grab the cyclist I’ll update my avatar accordingly.
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I found myself in a YouTube video. It was not unusual that I was in the video, I knew someone was filming, but I didn’t expect to stumble upon it on YouTube.
I was on Street View for a time. I got caught in group of cars which included a Google Street View Car in March 2013 on my morning drive into work on a busy four lane street (I have a 10 year old email in my gmail account where I wrote about it after I got to work still). And at some point after that, I remember finding myself driving my car alongside the Google Car when Google put up that batch of images. But when I look a that street’s March 2013 Street View images now they’ve since selected a sequence of photos from a time period when the Car was going in the same direction but with a lot less traffic (so there’s a lot less to “blur”). Street View image curation surely has an algorithm behind it which they’ve developed to pick the “best” images for streets where they have multiple sequences to chose from.
You’d imagine Google has by now figured out that taking Streetview images during busy traffic times is unproductive in terms of miles covered per hour while using expensive human labor. Better to sit out the “rush hours” on freeways and major arteries, avoid beach roads on 3-day weekends, etc.
I’ve noticed Streetview images near me on busy streets tend to be taken within an hour after sunrise during the summer when traffic is less. Very few images with snow in them (but it might be summer going in the opposite direction).
Me and a fellow resident were on street view for a few months talking outside our NY apartment building. Blurred faces. NY seems to have new pictures quite often. In one year we had the regular view, then a view with scaffolding in front while they worked on the building, then back to regular view.
My car was also on google waiting to turn out of my lake house driveway. Couldn’t see who was in the car at all.
Not Streetview but sort of similar, if much older: a few years ago I came across some Youtube clips of captured German WW2 newsreels, some of which covered the battle for Crete, where my father was taken POW. And suddenly there he was, years before I was born and half the age I was when I viewed the clip, marching across the screen to - well, he had little or no idea what.
It was a very strange feeling.