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> Google Earth is prevented from showing the faces of real people, both living and dead. Colonel Sanders used to be one, which means that his smiling visage is
by devb 12y ago
> Google Earth is prevented from showing the faces of real people, both living and dead. Colonel Sanders used to be one, which means that his smiling visage is blurred out on the logo of every one of the world's KFCs.
Pretty sure Google's face recognition just blurred those out as a matter of pattern matching. If you look carefully in Street View you can see false positives everywhere.
- cdr 12y agoYes, I find parts of signs blurred out reasonably frequently. The only reason I could conceive of for that is face blurring false positives.
- scottlocklin 12y agoI've been meaning to fiddle with the Viola Jones filter...
- thrownaway2424 12y agoI think the blurring of signs is a side effect of trying to blur out the license plates of cars.