So a colleague at work showed me this street view of a lady whose face is not blurred. This answers my question of how all faces and license plates are blurred. Based on this image, the blurring of faces and plates is done by a computer programme. I know this because facial recognition programmes cannot recognize faces without the eyes. Therefore, any one with sun glasses or otherwise covered eyes does not have a "face". This is further proven by the fact that the lady standing with her has a blurred face. If a geography student was systematically blurring faces, quite obviously, both faces would be recognized in this photo and would be subsequently blurred.
This raises a privacy concern, since this lady is recognizable to any one who knows her, or knows what she looks like. We also know from this that she goes to Star Bucks (the Ogilvy location) and that she did this in approximately June 2009. Since these images were taken on sunny days, I can only imagine that there are many other people whose faces are not blurred. Have you found any privacy blips?
Today's Lesson: Eyes are the window into our souls, and our privacy.
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