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Google to Blur Faces on Street View

Posted by Ty Colfax - Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:26 PM



Google has started blurring faces from its Street View feature, and let me tell you, it's not a moment too soon. Big Brother (and my actual big brother who is still trying to track me down on the internet) shant have the freedom to log my locations. It's bad enough that cameras are popping up at intersections to "catch red-light-runners."

John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Google Maps said at the Where 2.0 Conference recently that a new algorithm is being used to seek out the faces and blur them automatically and that it, "It does a good job of figuring that out. It uses a variety of technologies to filter," Hanke said, though it's "not perfect."

news.com: Google begins blurring faces in Street View

Permalink Tags: Internets Culture, Other People's Misfortune, Tech

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Posted by blakezilla - Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:51 PM
It should have been obvious from the start that having people's faces was not good.

I bet in the near future (if not already) they are gonna do some Robocop S__t and upload all the fugitive's faces to the database and then assist the cops. I think that is a scary thought, not that running from the law is good but...it just seems way too bad SCI FI movieish.

Imagine the poor dude whos face DOESN'T get filtered and blurred...he must have one ugly mug to not be recognized by all the sophisticated technology. (I hope that doesn't happen to me, now that I joked about it)
Posted by tailsjacks - Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:14 PM
take it away google map i got what im looking for hehe lol
Posted by littleb242 - Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:21 PM
If you look close enough, you can see Niko hiding behing that first pillar
Posted by 1mikeg - Wednesday, May 14, 2008 5:59 PM
"...a new algorithm is being used to seek out the faces and blur them automatically..." right after if captures & uploads each face to an international database called "People to be assimilated."
Posted by Hallowethe - Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:49 PM
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING.
Freedom is slavery. War is Peace. Ignorance is strength.

Wow I'm cool.
Posted by altizar - Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:06 AM
I hate to tell people this, but you can identify people from other things than just thier faces, plus blurring is reversable if you know the "standard algorythym" used to blur the image.

Basicly this is just to soothe the idiots out there. If you want true privcy, you take a gun and every time you see one of these cameras you shoot it or put duct tape over it. When the cost of sending out repairmen exceeds the income from the having them there, the company will get the idea.
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