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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. Re:What privacy concerns? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In inner city view, there is no need to blur the faces.
    Those people all look alike anyway

  2. Re:What privacy concerns? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There are a hell of a lot of people out there though who would not wish to be found so easily. I know i'm one of them. For that reason, I deliberately moved to an area where nobody knew me, and I avoid reporters of any kind (not that I come across them often). I have good reasons for wanting to stay private - and I certainly wouldn't be happy for my face and location to be so publicly displayed without my consent.