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Starting with New York City, Google Maps has begun updating its street view function by blurring people's faces who were inadvertently captured by the roving camera equipped cars. This should address a lot of the privacy concerns. In addition to humans, Google is also very concerned about the privacy rights of horses:
Read more here.
Talk about schadenfreude in the digital age. Google Map's street view is created with the assistance of a car that is outfitted with cameras, and these neutral eyes captures street incidents that are later immortalized on Google Map. Incidents such as this one of a kid falling off his bicycle. Haha.
And here's my FAIL contribution:
I was walking through Soho last summer and walked in front of one of those camera outfitted cars.
