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StreetView Face Blurring

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday May 13, @08:11AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the you-can't-see-me dept.

The What is special about geospatial blog reports about this new Google endeavor. From their summary : Google has recently updated their StreetView data in Manhatten. Biside some improvemetns in image quality, Google has implemented some automatic face-blurring technology. Form the screenshot you can see that it does work really nice. It blurs the faces, but doesn’t detract too much from the imagery.

For a more detailed explanation of why this is occurring, please visit the blog link above.

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• Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France

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  by Satri (3) on Tuesday May 13, @08:59AM (#2392)
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  Slashdot discuss a related story over the weekend, named Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France [slashdot.org]. And its summary: "Google has begun to scan the streets of Paris as part of its Street View service, but the company may be hindered from publishing them unedited. The reason? French privacy laws. Google may be forced to blur faces or use low-resolution versions of the photographs. The Embassy of France in the US has a page devoted to French privacy laws, that says the laws are needed to 'avoid infringing the individual's right to privacy and right to his or her picture (photograph or drawing), both of them rights of personality.'"

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• Same story discussed over /.

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  by Satri (3) on Tuesday May 13, @06:46PM (#2401)
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  Here [slashdot.org].

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