Google Maps can bring your lovers back?
Thanks to technology. Nowadays, we can literally go out carrying just one smartphone with Google Maps without getting lost. Besides the direction, navigation, recent motorway function, or upcoming speed camera feature. The maps get you everywhere you want to go, even your heart-broken past.
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In this app, one of the most useful functions is street view images. Since these pictures aren’t be updated simultaneously, just by tapping the button, you can see the workers on the street are repairing the traffic light which has already been completed a few months ago.
There is a woman used it to track her own broken marriage. By searching her address, she saw her house, her pet, her car is on the driveway because there is no garage in that house and the tree her husband just pruned when they haven’t arrived the divorce stage yet.
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In this case, we can find this is a potential feature for finding past also a latent privacy problem. If one wanted to blur a house, another one didn’t, how Google would decide, or depends on what kind of criteria.
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