I value my privacy and I generally keep myself to myself. Loads of celebs out there seem to be in everyone’s face but there’s something to be said for going incognito. Being public opens up all sorts of things, some good, some bad!
I was googling my postcode (sometimes it’s good to check this every so often and I found that Zoopla, a private company, have acquired details of my home, perhaps bought from the Land Registry or some other source. If people want information from the Land Registry it should ideally be from responsible organisations not private companies out to sell advertising.
My property is not for sale either.
Anyone can put up photos, on the site, even if they’re from the gas man. So if you have people in your house make sure it is tidy, and hide the antiques. Make sure your rottweiler gets in front of the photo.
You can also imagine dodgy exes having a field day and adding private photos of a property, not to mention marketing companies sending out junk mail, and you having a real job, trying to get it removed.
Google quite happily removed my property upon request, but Zoopla refuse to do so. Even 192 have removed my details. I am X-directory. But Zoopla, well, it is all out what they want. Some customer service that is.
I expect other people want to keep their property details private, not to mention their interiors too, and dodgy paintings by Grandma Maude or collection of meercats.
The information they publish can be misleading and inaccurate too.
The matter is being taken up further as they hadn’t removed it.
Dear Zoopla - Remove my Property 
I couldn’t agree more. Why is it that the biggest financial transaction most people are likely to make in their lives is fair game for zoopla to put out there into the public domain for all to know. It is nobody else’s business. As for the pictures, it seems to encourage weird people looking inside your house. I don’t want weird people looking in my house. It is an invasion of privacy. Please let me know how you get on with taking the matter further. Glad others out there feel the same.
I complained to the Land Registry via my MP who forced Zoopla to remove the wrong ‘sale price’ they put up. The Land Registry also stopped lots of other sites like Zoopla doing the same thing. I was able to ‘own my property’ and put up my own photos (not that any of my photos will be put on) but I couldn’t get rid of my address details probably as we are obliged to have these details at the Land Registry anyway as they are ‘public documents’.. I haven’t been been able to get rid of the sale price at all. Personally I want the whole lot off.It is no one’s business, particularly private companies using it for their own ends and certainly no one else should bung up photos. I have no idea how many other sites are doing the same thing.. Zoopla will only alter the sale price and won’t remove anything else. I expect if someone puts something dodgy on your property they will remove it, but not everyone has access to the internet etc and won’t even know other people are putting photos of our property.
The whole world can look at your house, it is really ridiculous. Imagine burglars having a field day.
I contacted the Land Registry’s Legal Affairs team. However, I never did get my own legal advice, as maybe an law by the EU will override what they think.
I managed to block Google Streetview who blurred my house, and they were very good, sorted it out in a few days, so why it is so hard for our property to be removed from Zoopla.