G-maps wtf?

[Chairman Risus]

FYI: Google Maps fuzzes out faces and license plates.

eh yes that's what we were talking about:

Also Streetview pretends to blur out the faces of people. They miss some. And if you know the person whose face is blurred, from context, clothing and blurred facial features you can easily positively identify them anyway. All they have protected against is somebody scraping all those pictures and creating a huge facial recognition database, but then, who'd do that (it's a LOT of effort, more a theoretical danger than a real one).

But they blur out people's faces.
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[Suu]

Lol, this just got posted on another forum.

http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/

[Chairman Risus]

Lol, this just got posted on another forum.

http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/

Disappointing set.
Bird shit Streetview is better.
Nothing beats the angry Norwegians

[Triple Zero]

FYI: Google Maps fuzzes out faces and license plates.

eh yes that's what we were talking about:

Also Streetview pretends to blur out the faces of people. They miss some. And if you know the person whose face is blurred, from context, clothing and blurred facial features you can easily positively identify them anyway. All they have protected against is somebody scraping all those pictures and creating a huge facial recognition database, but then, who'd do that (it's a LOT of effort, more a theoretical danger than a real one).

But they blur out people's faces.
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Right. My mistake.

[Suu]

Lol, this just got posted on another forum.

http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/

Disappointing set.
Bird shit Streetview is better.
Nothing beats the angry Norwegians

The Norwegians just made my life 112% better.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

There is a way to get around that:

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Keeping in mind that google maps pictures can be several years old.  There's one shot of the house I lived in that's three years old. This just isn't something I can bring myself to be paranoid about, when there are so many other things I could be worrying about.