Prince George was caught on candid camera last month by a company called iLOOKABOUT.
The company had a pair of camera-equipped vans in the city recording photos of the city's streetscape for a private client, iLOOKABOUT chief operating officer Mark Sheppard said.
"It's a photographic survey. The photos will be used for property information... insurance information in this case," Sheppard said. "The information is protected in much the same way as any other insurance information."
The vans recorded every street within city limits, Sheppard said. Sheppard wouldn't name the client who contracted the photo survey or say precisely when the vans were in the city.
The survey was, "just recently completed," he said, after, "not a great deal of time" - although he declined to specify the timeline.
The Citizen caught up with one of the vans on Aug. 30.
Only insurance professionals will be able to view the photo streetscape, he said.
"Even though it's protected database that falls under the regulations for insurance information... we still do facial scrubs so people aren't identifiable," Sheppard said.
The company also blurs any vehicle license plates in the photo survey, he added.
iLOOKABOUT's website promotes their streetscape service as, "our proprietary geo-coded image product that helps any commercial enterprise explore, map and manage their world with visual data they can trust for accuracy and integrity."
