Google stands down, cites system 'overzealous' to blur cow's face on Street View
Syafique Shuib
September 17, 2016 12:01 MYT
September 17, 2016 12:01 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.
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.