Google street view has had its fair share of quirks over the years. Their cameras have caught some of the weirdest images, seen things that weren’t supposed to be and even found an alien at Area 51 (okay, that last one may not be true.) For those unaware, Google tends to blur the faces of all humans on street view in order to protect their privacy. However, this time, Google has even addressed the privacy concerns of a cow!
Most recently, Google Street View, presumably mistaking it for a human, blurred the face of a lone cow in Cambridge! I guess they’re bringing bovine privacy concerns into the mainstream.
Great to see Google takes cow privacy seriously pic.twitter.com/ACTBpDwno6
— David Shariatmadari (@D_Shariatmadari) September 13, 2016
Since the tweet was posted, it’s been liked over 14,000 times and Twitter loved it!
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@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 was she asked mooove out of the way or was the pic taken on the hoof?
— Dave smith (@Powys_power_gat) 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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@D_Shariatmadari @TuxDePoinsisse I think it means even worse, that we humans are mistaken for a cow! 😀
— Axelle Ap. (@cryptax) September 15, 2016
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@D_Shariatmadari I wonder whose face provided the baseline for that match?
— Peter Nehrer (@pnehrer) September 14, 2016
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@D_Shariatmadari @jonworth Some people think one cow looks much like any udder. Not so!
— Tim Bale (@ProfTimBale) September 13, 2016
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@D_Shariatmadari @THEJacobBowen I got a beef with that!
— TANSTAAFL (@TANSTAAFL23) September 14, 2016
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@D_Shariatmadari Anonymoos?
— Jacques Maree (@JacquesMaree73) September 13, 2016
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Google blurs bovine face, rendering subject, ahem, incowgnito. https://t.co/XOGFj9qHOu
— Ed Ronco (@edronco) September 16, 2016
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@D_Shariatmadari@databong they’re starting with lower mammals and working their way up.
— Nitin Borwankar (@nitin) September 14, 2016
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Great for Cow privacy…. Now we need to work on Chicken privacy Jeff Arendas. https://t.co/ZbQoYrNzXw
— ECKERLE (@ECKERLE) September 17, 2016
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Did @google do this after meeting betn @narendramodi & @SunderPichai? https://t.co/YjaziEohzS pic.twitter.com/PFJaVvQYCc
— Yogesh Pawar (@powerofyogesh) September 17, 2016
Whether it was simply a glitch or a social awakening, it certainly gave us a good laugh. Thank you Google! 😀