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Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View

Posted by kdawson on from the middle-ground-in-range-of-both-sides'-fire dept.

mytrip notes a News.com article reporting that Google has begun blurring faces in its Street View service, which has spawned privacy concerns since its introduction last year. Google has been working for a couple of years to advance the state of the art of face recognition. Quoting News.com: 'The technology uses a computer algorithm to scour Google's image database for faces, then blurs them, said John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Google Maps, in an interview at the Where 2.0 conference...' Google wrote about the program in their Lat/Long blog."

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  1. Censoring by lilfields · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    First it was censoring in China and now they are censoring in America...Google may as well be run by the Bolshevists

  2. The Japanese Use A Similar Program by Skeetskeetskeet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To scour porn for vaginas and penises and blur them. But they don't blur anuses and explosive fecal matter.

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  3. Blurr patent by kylehase · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    With all the crazy patents given out in the US, I wonder if someone holds a patent for blurring faces or other obfuscation techniques.

    1) Patent obvious idea.
    2) Wait for a big companies to use it.

    4) Profit!

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