Milanese on Google Street View.

[chorse123]

I'm going to be in Italy next week buying for HowardYount.com, so today I was looking up a few directions. I accidentally clicked one of the turns on google, and up popped street view. First thought: Hey, random Italians looking rather classic. Next thought: What the hell? Is that guy in witness protection? I guess google is doing this now.

 

[anon]

haha, that's random

I think Google tries to obscure anyone's face that can be recognized, though.

 

[Mexicorn]

Originally Posted by anon

haha, that's random

I think Google tries to obscure anyone's face that can be recognized, though.

Yes shortly after google started streetview people complained that they could be seen on the service (Would be a little sad to be immortalized walking out of a XXX shop or walking into their mistress's apt). Now facial detection software pics out any face and blurs it.

 

[gdl203]

I think that makes sense depending on the country's laws. I'm not a lawyer but in some countries (e.g. France), people have sole rights to their own image ("droit à l'image") and can request that their pictures may not be used in publications. Reading a gossip mag in France is quite interesting as it is loaded with mandatory inclusions (sometimes taking a large part of the cover) of lawsuits that the magazine lost by invading celebrities' privacy (in public places).

I would guess that Italians have something similar and can request the blurring of their face.

Apparently, Google Maps is quite a complex organization with lawyers and geopolitics experts. There was an article in Monocle about the difficult issues of naming and drawing borders for contested lands and territories throughout the world.

 

[Steven Aver]

That photo is hilarious! Who would of known that would be the first image you'd come across.

 

[oneeightyseven]

Mafia meet FTW.

P.S man in blue overcoat looks very scary