August 23, 2007 at 13:45Google erases faces and car numbers with Map Street View
Google has listened to privacy advocates and agreed to delete all personal data from Google Maps , namely the faces of people and car numbers in Street View photos. Previously, Google stood on the fact that only users who recognize themselves can ask to remove themselves from the photos, but now the company has made fundamental changes to the rules for using the service, so now faces and numbers are deleted at the first request of any, even an unauthorized person. As Marissa Mayer reported yesterday, these changes were made back in June, ten days after the service was opened, but no one knew about them until yesterday.
Street View service became a real find for voyeurs and private detectives: for example, in the photographs you could see the face of a satisfied man leaving a strip club, license plate numbers near the alcohol bar and other little secrets (see private photos from Street View ) . Now there will be less pleasure.
Over the course of three months, bloggers heartily jabbed at fun shots that accidentally ended up in public access. “We looked and thought that this is real idiocy, because the purpose of our product is not at all like that,” said Marissa Mayer. - The service was created to show how houses and shops look. If someone says, “Hey, there’s someone’s face,” then what’s the difference, whose face is there? ”
As you know, the Street View layer on Google Maps is ordinary photographs taken with panoramic digital cameras. This is a joint project of Google and the cyberpunk company Immersive Media. For shooting the territory, powerful high-resolution panoramic cameras with a 360 ° viewing angle are used, which drive around the city on the roofs of vans and cars ( appearance ).
Street View service became a real find for voyeurs and private detectives: for example, in the photographs you could see the face of a satisfied man leaving a strip club, license plate numbers near the alcohol bar and other little secrets (see private photos from Street View ) . Now there will be less pleasure.
Over the course of three months, bloggers heartily jabbed at fun shots that accidentally ended up in public access. “We looked and thought that this is real idiocy, because the purpose of our product is not at all like that,” said Marissa Mayer. - The service was created to show how houses and shops look. If someone says, “Hey, there’s someone’s face,” then what’s the difference, whose face is there? ”
As you know, the Street View layer on Google Maps is ordinary photographs taken with panoramic digital cameras. This is a joint project of Google and the cyberpunk company Immersive Media. For shooting the territory, powerful high-resolution panoramic cameras with a 360 ° viewing angle are used, which drive around the city on the roofs of vans and cars ( appearance ).