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muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 06:04 PM Sep 2016

Google street view blurs cow's face in Cambridge

A cow which had its face blurred by Google street view has proved a hit on social media.

The animal was snapped by Google's cameras at Coe Fen, Cambridge, and seemingly given the same treatment humans receive for privacy reasons.

A tweet by The Guardian's David Shariatmadari highlighting the sight was retweeted more than 9,000 times.

Google admitted its face-blurring technology had been "a little overzealous".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-37378007

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Google street view blurs cow's face in Cambridge (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2016 OP
Moo shenmue Sep 2016 #1
Did you read to the end of the article? (nt) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2016 #2
A few weeks ago, I went on a Streetview trip down the Enchanted Highway William Seger Sep 2016 #3
Perhaps google thought she was Camilla? Duppers Sep 2016 #4

William Seger

(10,778 posts)
3. A few weeks ago, I went on a Streetview trip down the Enchanted Highway
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 12:19 PM
Sep 2016

... in North Dakota, where one man has been creating giant steel sculptures. This is one of the first and most famous, The Tin Family:


Duppers

(28,120 posts)
4. Perhaps google thought she was Camilla?
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 01:35 PM
Sep 2016

That was low, I know.

Article...
"spokesman for Google said: 'We thought you were pulling the udder one when we herd the moos, but it's clear that our automatic face-blurring technology has been a little overzealous.
'Of course, we don't begrudge this cow milking its five minutes of fame.'"

These from Twitter:
“Udderly ridiculous”
“Google teat view”

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