{"id":3666,"date":"2011-08-09T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2011-08-09T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T02:31:09","slug":"google-street-view-face-recognition-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/08\/google-street-view-face-recognition-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Street View Face Recognition Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of claims from Senator Stephen Conroy a little over a year ago about Google committing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2010\/06\/ultimate-conroy-facepalm\/\">the biggest privacy breach in history<\/a> in the midst of collecting updated data for their StreetView service &#8211; (which the Privacy Commissioner later basically dismissed as rubbish) &#8211; as a goodwill gesture, Google promised to make sure that people&#8217;s faces and other identifiable markings such as vehicle registrations would be blurred out.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this image from Street View I just found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.au\/?ll=-37.811814,144.96402&#038;spn=0,0.008256&#038;z=18&#038;layer=c&#038;cbll=-37.811786,144.964115&#038;panoid=iFCDChkPBUd1DxniyCmmEA&#038;cbp=12,144.11,,0,0\">here<\/a>, click for larger version:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny enough &#8211; (but fair enough, since the face detection algorithm is ultimately designed to detect faces) &#8211; that it blurred out a face on a poster, but curious that it didn&#8217;t blur out the identical face on the identical poster immediately next to the first one.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course algorithms like this are never likely to be &#8220;perfect&#8221; &#8211; but I do worry a bit when two &#8211; (for all intents and purposes) &#8211; identical pieces of the image are treated differently, and it does make me wonder how many &#8220;real&#8221; faces got missed.<\/p>\n<p>Food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of claims from Senator Stephen Conroy a little over a year ago about Google committing the biggest privacy breach in history in the midst of collecting updated data for their StreetView service &#8211; (which the Privacy Commissioner later basically dismissed as rubbish) &#8211; as a goodwill gesture, Google promised to make sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[219,259,513],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-fail","tag-google","tag-streetview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}