Google is dedicated to helping you discover the world effectually you. Imagery on our platforms is intended to heighten your feel, helping you preview and explore places nearby or across the world. We go to neat lengths to make certain that imagery is useful, and reflects the world our users explore.

Street View imagery can be contributed by external parties or Google. You can tell the difference past the attribution name or icon presented with each image. Imagery captured by an external party and published to Google Maps is owned by that correspondent (or any successor they assign).

This page sets forth the Google-Contributed Street View Imagery Policy. For user-contributed Street View imagery, please come across the Maps User Contributed Content Policy.

Google-Contributed Street View Imagery Policy

To help ensure that everyone viewing Street View imagery has a positive, beneficial experience, we've adult this Google-Contributed Street View Policy. It explains how nosotros care for inappropriate content and the criteria we use for publishing Street View imagery to Google Maps. Please check back from time to time, every bit nosotros may occasionally update our policy.

Street View Imagery is Not Existent Time

Street View imagery shows only what our cameras were able to see on the day that they passed past the location. Afterwards, information technology takes months to procedure them. This means that content y'all see could exist anywhere from a few months to a few years old. In some locations where we accept collected imagery over many years, you may besides be able to view changes to that imagery in our Time Auto role.

Blurring

Google takes a number of steps to protect the privacy of individuals when Street View imagery is published to Google Maps.

Nosotros have developed cut-edge face and license plate blurring engineering that is designed to blur identifiable faces and license plates within Google-contributed imagery in Street View. If y'all see that your face or license plate requires additional blurring, or if y'all would like u.s. to blur your unabridged house, auto, or body, submit a request using the "Report a problem" tool.

Inappropriate Content

You lot can report inappropriate content using the "Report a problem" link. We consider the following categories to be inappropriate content, except where there is the artistic, educational, or documentary value in the content.

Intellectual property violations

Intellectual property violations

We don't let images or whatsoever other content that infringes on anyone else's legal rights, including copyright. For more data or to file a DMCA asking, review our copyright procedures.

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Sexually explicit content

We don't allow sexually explicit content.

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Illegal, unsafe, or fierce content

Nosotros don't allow content that is illegal in nature, promotes dangerous or criminal acts, or contains graphic or gratuitous violence.

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Harassment and threats

We don't allow content which uses Street View to harass, cracking, or attack individuals.

Hate speech

Hate speech

We don't allow content that promotes or condones violence against individuals or groups on the ground of race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

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Terrorist Content

We don't permit terrorist organizations to use this service for whatever purpose, including recruitment. We'll also remove content related to terrorism, such every bit content that promotes terrorist acts, incites violence, or celebrates terrorist attacks.

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Child endangerment

Google has a zero-tolerance policy against content that exploits or abuses children. This includes all sexual abuse imagery and all content that presents children in a sexual fashion. If you discover any content that y'all remember exploits children in this manner, delight exercise not re-share or annotate on it, even if your intent is to bring the content to Google'southward attending. If you lot find content elsewhere on the internet, please contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) straight.

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Personally identifiable data

We don't allow content that contains personally identifiable information such as credit carte du jour details, medical records, or government-issued identification — whether yours or someone else'southward.