Google stands down, cites system 'overzealous' to blur cow's face on Street View

Syafique Shuib
September 17, 2016 20:01 MYT
An image on Google Street View of River Cam in England showed a photo of a cow in which the face has been blurred. - Photo: Twitter/David Shariatmadari
GOOGLE today said its face-blurring technology was “overzealous” following the company's move in blurring a cow’s face on Google Street View.
The image was spotted by The Guardian's US Opinion Editor David Shariatmadari who shared the image on Twitter.
A Google representative immediately responded as the tweet went viral.
“We thought you were pulling the udder one when we herd the moos, but it’s clear that our automatic face-blurring technology has been a little overzealous.
"Of course, we don’t begrudge this cow milking its five minutes of fame,” a Google spokesperson told BBC.

Great to see Google takes cow privacy seriously pic.twitter.com/ACTBpDwno6

— David Shariatmadari (@D_Shariatmadari) September 13, 2016
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The image showed the mammal at Rival Cam in Cambridge, England.
The screen grab image of the Google Street View shared by Shariatmadari has a date stamped August 2015.
At Press time, the tweet has been re-tweeted almost 15,000 times.
Netizens were amused by the image, with many making jokes about it.
“It needed to disguise its identity. It had a restraining order against the Burger King,” said a Twitter user known as MNeko.

@D_Shariatmadari @BadoorSNK It needed to disguise its identity! It had a restraining order against the Burger King.

— MNeko (@MNeko) September 13, 2016
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@D_Shariatmadari @jazmasta Cows should dress more modestly so they don't have to have their faces blurred in shame. pic.twitter.com/dBkfvpVprR

— Rev. Howard Furst (@revhowardfurst) September 13, 2016
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@TitusJude @D_Shariatmadari Udderly ridiculous.

— Funky Robot (@Metal___Mickey) September 13, 2016
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#NotAllCows (h/t @D_Shariatmadari) pic.twitter.com/ZQBiKW5s0H

— Janine mer (@J9Roem) September 13, 2016
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