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Google May Blur Canadian Faces and License Plates

Posted by kdawson on from the blur-me-blur-me dept.

KingK writes "Reuters reports that Google is considering a Canadian launch of its Street View map feature, which offers street-level close-ups of city centers. But the company said it would probably blur people's faces and vehicle license plates to respect tougher Canadian privacy laws."

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  1. Draw attention. by eggman9713 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, now I have to go find some other way to draw attnetion to myself. *Logs into Facebook*

  2. FUCK YOU! YOU DAMN COMMIE! GET OUT OF USA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are the kind of people Joseph McCarthy hates most. You fucking grow up in America and then betray us and go to live in commie-socialist Canada! NEVER COME BACK!

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    Write in the man!

  3. That and toplessness.... by arthurpaliden · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only that, decent privacy laws, but in the province of Ontario women are allowed to go topless in public. Pitty it is soo cold that no one really does.....

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  4. How? by c · · Score: 4, Funny

    License plates shouldn't be a problem, but how does the algorithm know Canadians from non-Canadians?

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    1. Re:How? by jagdish · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a mickey of C.C. at the beer parlour, but my skidoo got stuck in the muskeg on my way back to the duplex. I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Damn chinook, melted everything. And then a Mountie snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave me an impaired. I was S.O.L., sitting there dressed only in my Stanfields and a toque at the time. And the Mountie, he's all chippy and everything, calling me a shit disturber and what not. What could I say, except, 'Chimo!'"

    2. Re:How? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh Christ. It took me years (and a couple of British girlfriends) to understand British humor. And now this? I don't even think I'm gonna try.

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  5. I just want to say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I saw a Canadian once. I can, er, understand why they don't like to be photographed...

  6. But that's not all by Minwee · · Score: 3, Funny

    In accordance with Bill 101, Google will also be changing all of the signs to read in French first, with English in smaller type beneath.