The Good, The Bad, and the Blurred

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8110363.stm

Police in the Netherlands have arrested two men after a boy they are alleged to have mugged saw a picture of them on Google’s internet map service. … Because the faces of the people in the Street View photo were blurred, the police contacted Google, seeking the original image.

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http://www.out-law.com/page-10089

A committee of all 27 EU member states’ privacy regulators … asked Google to ensure … that original images are destroyed once they have been used to create blurred images that the public can see.

I think that we should have the European Parliament force Flickr to blur all the faces in all the pictures ever taken in Europe. And Google Images too. Yeah.

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