A mother said she was horrified after her two children were pictured naked on Google street view while playing in a paddling pool outside their house.Google blurred out the faces of the children Laura Haslam, 27, contacted them about the images of daughters Brooke, four, and Eva, three.
But she said that their bodies were still visible in the pictures.
She said: ‘It’s quite scary scared because I don’t know how many people might have seen it. I don’t know how long it’s been there for, but it looks like it was taken last summer.
‘It was a hot day and I put the paddling pool out at the front of the house because that’s where the sun is – but I certainly won’t be doing that again.’
Laura, a business student at Blackpool and The Fylde College, was alerted to the pictures by a neighbour.
She contacted police and Google to complain about the pictures. They have now been fully blurred so their bodies can no longer be seen.
Laura, from Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, said: ‘I couldn’t believe it when a neighbour knocked on the door and said ‘you need to look on Google Maps because your kids are naked on the internet’.
‘I honestly thought nothing of it and thought he was winding me up – but then I was just so shocked to see it.
‘I mean, they had their faces blurred out but it was enough for a paedophile to get a kick out of it.’
Laura, who is engaged to Jordan Senior, 33, said she has kept the original image in case the issue is taken further.
Mum-of-two Laura said: ‘I know I would never win taking on the likes of Google and their army of lawyers – but something needs to be done.
‘I know they automatically blur faces, but surely they should scan the area for naked bodies – any pervert could have looked at my kids on there.
‘Why is it acceptable to show their bodies and not their faces?
‘The images have been totally smudged now but I don’t know why they didn’t do that in the first place.’
