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hebbet [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
3 months ago924 views

Faces are now blured out


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yahooler [PersonRank 0]

3 months ago #

Images:


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hebbet [PersonRank 10]

3 months ago #

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<<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]

3 months ago #

Copyright "Immersive Media"

The new imagery sucks.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

3 months 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]

3 months ago #

Or maybe the new imagery is not yet live.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

3 months ago #

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

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

3 months ago #

Imagery is now online
and they didn't blurried all the faces :)
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TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

3 months ago #

Pirate have long life
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TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

3 months ago #

Pictures have been taken in September 2007 ==> 8 months to be published.
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hebbet [PersonRank 10]

3 months ago #

The people of the screenshot [Up] blogoscoped.com/forum/131044.h ...

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Above 11 comments were made in the forum before this was blogged,
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Marcin Sochacki (Wanted) [PersonRank 8]

3 months ago #

Haha, now I feel like a prophet.
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:)

Eli [PersonRank 0]

3 months ago #

They also block crotches. Unless this guy's crotch looks a lot like a face...
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callum [PersonRank 2]

3 months 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]

3 months 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]

3 months ago #

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

Paul [PersonRank 0]

3 months ago #

AHAH very nice, smily face of horse

Satan [PersonRank 6]

3 months 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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