"A woman was mortified after receiving a note from a neighbour saying they could see everything when she showered." https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... s-21134670
Let's face it, if you were to find yourself in this position - not realising you were visible to the neighbours when showering - but then suddenly finding out you were, would your first reaction be to tell the world about it?... a quick search shows it's not only in the MEN but even on the Sun website, and multiple others.
That would probably be enough to make most people's eyes roll these days.
But it doesn't end there.
Just read the comments at the bottom of the article, and what's the first thing that clearly springs into many people's minds when they see an article like that?
One would presume that the girl expects that to be private - much like her showering.
I must admit for a while now, I've seen it as a challenge to imagine I were working for MI6 or whatever, and will often see if I can use information in and around photographs, to see if I can pin-point exactly where they are of, or where exactly they were taken from, etc.
So figured just for the challenge I'd see what could be established from the photo of the back of the house in the article, coupled with the information in the article.
If you use google 3d satellite view, it quickly becomes apparent that in Edgeley in Stockport (that location information being freely given away by the girl herself in the article), white-wash on the rear of the property is quite unusual. Even more so is a property having whitewash on the main rear walls but where there's a single story extension attached which is red brick. Even more unusual in that area, is having a whitewashed rear wall with the neighbours to the right having a red brick rear wall, but the extension on the whitewashed property being red brick.
So much so that after a few minutes of looking, there only appears to be one single candidate that I've found so far, for a property matching all those criteria.
Furthermore ...
- the absence of an upstairs window directly above the extension,
- the position of the satellite dish,
- the position of the neighbour's chimney,
- the location of greenary outside the extension window in question,
- the location of the outside corner drainpipe on the extension,
- the presence of a bush between the extension door and the end of the extension,
... in the google 3d satellite view, all seem to tally with the property in the photo.
Here's a side-by-side comparison so you can see what you think for yourselves whether it looks like the same property, though obviously, I've cropped right in on the google streeview image so as not to give away any more context than was given away in the original photo, and masked out the house numbers that google has overlayed on the rooftops,...
I'm going to stop short of including the address or google link for obvious reasons - though to be honest, the girl might as well have included her address herself in the article, given how easy it was to find this from the information she's already shared with everyone in the article.
I've posted this post really to caution just how much information people might be giving away without (presumably) being aware of it.
Effectively by posting that picture of the back of her house - which she presumably thought was just a picture of a.n.other rear terraced property same as every other, so safe to publish - but along with the other information in the article, she's basically given away her full address.
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Assuming of course that the article and photographs are genuine and not fabricated using stolen pictures, and the resultant address isn't someone else's entirely, and the real owners / occupiers are completely unconnected and unaware. You can never be completely sure these days.