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hebbet [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
16 years ago5,951 views

Faces are now blured out
http://bp2.blogger.com/_zJrVQFqitUA/SCjBtDjMYKI/AAAAAAAAC8c/Ojb077OdYJk/s1600/sample1.png
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/street-view-revisits-manhattan.html

yahooler [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

Images:
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/3827/sample1gc8.png

hebbet [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

http://google-au.blogspot.com/2008/05/street-view-in-australia-and-new.html
<<At Google, we take our users' privacy very seriously. Street View only contains imagery that anyone can already see walking down a public street and we've always had in place image removal tools.>>

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Copyright "Immersive Media"

The new imagery sucks.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

The images are so blurry that their new privacy tool is completely useless.
I'm pretty sure the image they put in their article in Google Lat Long might be a fake...

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Or maybe the new imagery is not yet live.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Yes... :) I read only Haochi's article, it wasn't mentioned.
But with blurry pictures, no privacy problem!

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Imagery is now online
and they didn't blurried all the faces :)
http://maps.google.com/?hl=en&gl=us&ie=UTF8&ll=40.762162,-73.976333&spn=0.007151,0.020084&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.758572,-73.979292&panoid=CY7hHtiMzMHTLmDRVE_vmQ&cbp=1,17.25542091287366,,0,12.494778780339129

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Pirate have long life
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&gl=us&layer=c&ie=UTF8&cbll=40.806108,-73.963411&panoid=3VSU0OE5Bi1gGpExXj7ZmQ&cbp=1,161.73202678895154,,1,-17.539549776922566&ll=40.809278,-73.958116&spn=0.007146,0.027122&z=16

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Pictures have been taken in September 2007 ==> 8 months to be published.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Zorgloob%20was%20here&sll=40.744038,-73.994594&sspn=0.007153,0.020084&gl=us&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=0,40.756710,-73.986460&layer=c&ll=40.760309,-73.986461&spn=0.007151,0.020084&z=16&cbll=40.75671,-73.98646&panoid=VxVlAlpNcqN4MZBaLw49kw&cbp=1,133.11682710544497,,2,-25.19216494590144

hebbet [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

The people of the screenshot http://blogoscoped.com/forum/131044.html#id131046

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&gl=us&layer=c&ie=UTF8&cbll=40.754198,-73.980514&panoid=g78eHpIR7hp3h5xDems8Dg&cbp=1,207.89615582727905,,0,15.868847638060394&ll=40.757888,-73.979788&spn=0.007347,0.014591&z=16

Above 11 comments were made in the forum before this was blogged,

Marcin Sochacki (Wanted) [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Haha, now I feel like a prophet.
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/130969.html#id131005

:)

Eli [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

They also block crotches. Unless this guy's crotch looks a lot like a face...
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.85912,-73.938053&spn=0.010516,0.020084&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.855793,-73.938345&panoid=8AwjGmMxQ4NuV4tqLgbVqQ&cbp=1,154.16325602425908,,1,23.66107035755871

callum [PersonRank 2]

16 years ago #

If the Google vehicles did multiple passes on each street, I bet they could find versions of each part of each image that only contains the streets themselves. They could uses this to build up Street Views that were devoid of distractions like humans, cars or even horses..

Andy Wong [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Excellent!

This is a really excellent way of using face recognition technology. It is still hard to recognize a face to associate with someone, and it is relatively easy to locate a face and blur it.

Andy Wong [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Sooner or later, Google will sell face recognition technology to existing surveillance systems.

Paul [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

AHAH very nice, smily face of horse

Satan [PersonRank 6]

16 years ago #

Yeah, I'm totally spooked out by the face recognition stuff. It will make it very hard to be a bad guy soon.

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