Google is so concerned about privacy that it accidentally blurred out a cow's face on Google Maps

[Batu69]

 

If you've ever strolled down a street with Street View on Google Maps, you'll notice that everyone's faces are blurred. Google takes privacy very seriously, so they have an algorithm that finds out which parts of their photos are faces of human beings, and then blurs them out.

 

Sometimes it can get a bit overzealous. As David Shariatmadari noted on Twitter, the algorithm blurred out the face of a cow.

 

The tweet has been retweeted nearly 11,000 times, and people are having fun with it.

@TitusJude @D_Shariatmadari Udderly ridiculous.

- Funky Robot (@Metal___Mickey) September 13, 2016

@D_Shariatmadari Google teat view

- Titus Thomson (@TitusJude) September 13, 2016

@D_Shariatmadari @StarrOutlook Very amoosing

- Micky Hughes (@mcshamrock) September 15, 2016

Great to see Google takes cow privacy seriously pic.twitter.com/ACTBpDwno6

- David Shariatmadari (@D_Shariatmadari) September 13, 2016

A Google representative told NPR that it wasn't intentional.

 

"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," a Google representative told NPR. "Of course, we don't begrudge this cow milking its five minutes of fame."

 

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[dMog]

well that cow was in the witness protection program.... someone wanted to kill it...and eat it

[Recruit]

Just a marketing campaign about how Google protects user's privacy....................

They are trying to convince us that them have a lot of exigency concerning that.....

 

But the good thing is that we are not stupid........

[Sylence]

Lol