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Google published updated Street View photographs for Manhattan this week. The changes include sharper images, an ability to look upward at the island's skyscrapers and, in an effort to satisfy nervous -nelly privacy advocates, blurred faces. Including one belonging to a publicity-shy relative of Mr. Ed, starring in his latest off-Broadway role.
Google blurs Street View faces, including a horse's
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9:00 AM on Wed May 14 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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Of course, they forgot to blur the driver's face. :-P
You must see the Fark thread on this post. [forums.fark.com]
@Andrew Min: i think they have a face-blurring algorithm that automatically does the blurring; which they must have trained using internal people. When used in the real world it went for the horse's face.
THEY... are protecting the horse from winding up as a mafia prop!
I was expecting to see:
"That's not a horse. That's [hated female celebrity]"
as a comment. You guys are either less sexist or less creative than I thought. haha
edit:
Sarah Jessica Parker! Actually, some dude commented similarly on one of the other posts.
@bigsexyhair: never seen a chick with 4 legs....hence i assumed it must be a horse...
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