Sorry, it's a UK newspaper link, maybe it's blocked from there.
"Fast food chain KFC has been taken off the menu by Google Street View after privacy technology blurred the face of Colonel Sanders....Google was given permission to launch Street View in the UK after giving assurances it would obscure people's faces and car registration plates in the images. "
Wow, shades of the "Citizens United" decision here that gave corporations the right as "citizens" to contribute directly to political campaigns. So the Colonel (the trademark is actually based on a real person, but is after all a trademark image) gets privacy rights. Kind of ironic to obscure an advertising image for the sake of its privacy, when it only exists to bring attention to itself.
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See, that is the kind of photo that Google Street View might not get you:
auto faceblurring
I have to say, even this softened portrait still reminds me of Big Brother from 1984!
Richard, can't seem to make that link go through...
Sorry, it's a UK newspaper link, maybe it's blocked from there.
"Fast food chain KFC has been taken off the menu by Google Street View after privacy technology blurred the face of Colonel Sanders....Google was given permission to launch Street View in the UK after giving assurances it would obscure people's faces and car registration plates in the images.
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maybe this image link will work for you:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01406/Untitled-1_1406951c.jpg
Wow, shades of the "Citizens United" decision here that gave corporations the right as "citizens" to contribute directly to political campaigns. So the Colonel (the trademark is actually based on a real person, but is after all a trademark image) gets privacy rights. Kind of ironic to obscure an advertising image for the sake of its privacy, when it only exists to bring attention to itself.
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