Residents are asking for their homes to be blurred as thieves are now using new and innovative ways to case houses through Google Maps.

Security Expert Gina Field joined Carla Bignasca to discuss what precautions homeowners can take to avoid unsafe online activity, saying, “They’re taking happy snappies outside their home, which is showing the front of their home, the registration of their vehicles, and that’s when the Intel actually starts.”

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