WEBVTT - What's the deal with Google Street View? 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.000 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:09.040 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:14.440 tech Stuff from how stuff looks dot com. Hello there, everybody, 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.799 and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Poulette 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.440 and I'm an editor here at how Stuff works dot com. 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:21.919 Sitting next to me looking at pictures of your house 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.959 right now, as senior writer Jonathan Strickland, you need to 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:29.800 mow your lawn and take down that old hammock. Yeah, 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:31.720 that's just know what that. Nobody's going to get in 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:33.800 that thing again? Right? Yeah? Come on, who are your 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.000 fooling so today? Before we get into the topic, I 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.199 guess uh, we need to lead into it and I 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.960 can think of no better way to lead into it. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:49.440 Then you can listener me. Seriously, you could have thought 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.120 of fifty different ways lead. We have two listener mails 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.360 that have to do with today's topic. The first comes 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.680 from Duncan from Kent, England. You know what that means, 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:01.800 hey eyes. I'm sure I speak for a lot of 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.280 people when I say your podcasts awesome. I've been listening 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.280 for a while now and accumula a few suggestions. It 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.200 may be a lot to see. What's the deal with 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.280 Google street View. I hope you guys have a great 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:14.479 day and even great summer. From Duncan ps Max Rule. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.039 Duncan actually sent us quite a few suggestions. That was 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:19.680 just one of them, but that's what we're gonna talk 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:21.880 about today. But we did have an email from someone 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:26.199 else as well, Kimmy. Now Kimmy also gave multiple suggestions, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.720 but Kimmi says, hello, I really enjoyed the show and 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.400 I was hoping to throw a couple of suggestions at 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.160 you for ideas. I was wondering how Google gets their 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.080 images for their street view on Google Maps Earth. It 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:37.960 seems like an awful lot of pictures to get together, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.080 and I was wondering how they went about it. Thank 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.560 you again for all the information or I'm sorry. Thank 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.280 you for all the informative podcasts, and I hope there 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.280 will be many more in the future. We hope so too, Kimmy. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.680 So we're gonna talk about Google street View. Thank you 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.320 for all the informative podcasts and all those non informative podcasts. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.600 What we'd like to do those two. So Google street 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.320 View is a is a well this this one will 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.840 hopefully be one of the informative ones. So Google street 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.400 View started back in two thousand seven, or at least 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.799 it was unveiled in two thousand seven, that long ago. Yeah, 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.880 you know what's strange is that when you think of 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.239 all the news that's been generated by Google street View, 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.400 it's amazing to think it's only been around for two 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.560 years and it started in late May two thousand seven, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.720 so not you know, it's it's just gotten past the 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.520 the two year mark. So basically they decided to strap 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.040 the camera on the back of a car and drive 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.399 it down the street. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Okay, 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:35.640 So they put a camera that can take high definition photos. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.880 It takes a lot of them and uh in three 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.240 sixty right, So they're actually cameras facing in different directions, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.440 And what they do is they drive down the various 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.960 streets with this camera running. It's constantly taking photos. Um 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.840 and it GEO tags these photos. There's a GPS system 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.680 on these these cars that allows Google to actually put 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.079 the photos together in the right way, because I mean, 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.720 if you just took pictures going down the street, you 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.560 wouldn't necessarily know like, oh wait, you know what if 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.600 they what if they're out of order. How can I 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.320 does the Windy's come before the McDonald's, or you know 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.080 which direction am I going in? So you need to 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.000 have some information like the direction you're facing, the geotagging, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.840 all that kind of stuff in order to create a 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:22.480 useful map. And it's really a big panoramic image for 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.080 all the cities that are that have been involved in 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.640 Google street View. And uh, I think there's been about 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.240 a hundred of them so far worldwide. And they started 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.680 in the United States, actually started in California, which should 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.080 come as no surprises since that's where the headquarters for 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.600 Google happen to be and the Google Plex. Yes, and uh, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.720 I believe San Jose was the very first UM city 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:52.200 to to encounter the Google street View vehicles. UM and yeah, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.120 so I mean there's nothing really special, uh in the 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.080 in their methodology. They just, like we said, drive down 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.560 the street and they take lots of photos. UM. These 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.760 photos they then meshed together to create these panoramic images 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.680 that are known as Google street View. Now, even at 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:12.360 the very beginning, there were some issues with this UM 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.200 in June two thousand seven, so it had been active 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.520 for just a couple of weeks, and said that within 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.120 hours of the photographs of downtown San Francisco and New 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.200 York hitting the internet, bloggers were posting images of people 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.120 their faces visible, being arrested, sunbathing, and urinating in public. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.000 Hopefully not all at the same time. That would be 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:37.240 a really awkward criminal sunbathing and urinating while being arrested. Um, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.200 I imagine those are three different categories of people. Wait 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.240 you you can cut me, but make sure you you know, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:47.000 I need to flip over here, you know what, I'm 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.479 just gonna go with horrible, horrible jokes. If I keep on, 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:55.000 I'm gonna yeah. Yeah, So you know, wire dot Com 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.480 went ahead and started collecting these and started showing them off, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.400 and uh, they're actually quite a few sites on the 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.520 web now are people collect and show funny images that 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.520 were they're captured by Google street View. But even at 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.880 that early stage, back in two thousand and seven, there 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.440 were obviously some issues with the Google street Views raised 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.760 some questions like privacy and um, you know, do you 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.200 have any expectation of privacy when you're out in public? 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.159 Should you? Should you? Does Google have a responsibility to 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.080 to mask people's profiles so that they aren't easily identifiable 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.120 when they're out in public. I mean, after all, if 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.200 I were walking down the street, there's nothing stopping me 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.080 from taking photos of any public place or or location, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:36.640 I could just you know, whip out the camera and 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.400 start taking photos left and right. You have that right 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.520 in the United States and in most other countries where 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.159 Google street View is. And in fact, that's been Google's 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.159 defense in a lot of these cases, saying it's there's 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.800 nothing illegal about what we're doing. We we keep to 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.200 public roadways, and therefore we can take all the photos 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:57.200 we want roadways for now, except they're starting to deviate 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.039 from the roadways. And well, not only that, but they're 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.600 also instances where they have driven on roads where there 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.560 were no trespassing signs and private property signs up. Uh. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.960 And yet Google street View cars have gone through these 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.919 communities and taking taking photos. Um. And there's at least 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:19.080 one instance where that really was uh an issue. Um. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.039 It was in Minnesota. There was a town there, a 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.360 gated community, and it was private. It was a private 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.280 gated community that the citizens of that community actually owned 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.719 the streets, so they were private roads, they weren't public. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.840 And yet Google street you drove through this community, took 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.440 photos uploaded them. They were part of Google street View. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:46.520 Eventually they did take down those photos. Um because redents 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.880 of north Oaks said, we don't want our pictures there, 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.279 we don't want our community up on the internet. And 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.800 eventually Google did take them down. And in fact, there 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.840 is a process you can go through. If you find 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.200 a photo to be objection bowl for some reason or another, 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.400 you can you can click on a little link and 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.440 report it to Google and assuming that you have a 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.640 legitimate reason for bringing down that photo, Google will actually 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.840 take it down and will eventually replace it with something else. Yeah, 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.600 you know. Uh, there have been some high profile names 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.960 who have written in to say please take my house down. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.880 Among them, Sir Paul McCartney of his London house asked 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.640 Google to remove his pictures of his home. I think 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:32.000 he specifically said let it be okay and uh So, anyway, 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.760 when I meant a few minutes ago to about we 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.360 were talking about how they were deviating from the path 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:44.160 Google street view and now employs tricycles. Not tricycles like 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.760 you know, the kind with the little bell and the streamers. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.520 I just I just envisioned all these like little hellions 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:55.240 on big wheels really cool, be awesome. Can you imagine 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.240 the photos to come back? No, I can't actually anyway, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.600 but no, they're they're more like those uh those ice 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.440 cream carts because they have a big box on the 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.200 back between the two back wheels. And uh, you know 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.040 the the Google street View camera, which is basically a 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.960 giant pole with the panoramic cameras mounted on the top. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.200 They have to be a certain height to really get 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.480 the you know the Google street View effects, which actually 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.280 which is not like the ken Burns effect. That's an 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.880 entirely different animal, but that actually did cause some issues 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:32.280 in other countries. That's that height ca so people jump ahead. Yeah, 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.240 the street view the street view trikes are traveling on 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.719 paths like in parks and college campuses, places where the 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.280 cars may not travel. Um, so I'm sure that that 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.880 will cause a fresh round of complaints. That's that's kind 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:48.560 of still a fairly new thing as at the time 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:57.040 we're recording this, uh in January, So um wow, going back, 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.040 you know, we're not like we ever get accused of 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:05.000 spreading misinformation anything anyway. Yes, and it's going and we 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.200 could have been back to the future anyway, No, it is. 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.840 It is June, and the tricycles are still sort of 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:15.479 a new thing. Yeah, they are a new thing. And 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.640 um and I'm sure that we're going to see some 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.760 interesting and creative ways that students are going to find, 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:25.160 uh to insert themselves into these photos, because that has 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:29.079 already become something of a a thing, a meme if 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.800 you will, on the internet, is finding ways of inserting 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.560 interesting pictures into Google street View. Now, it's a little 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.839 tricky because usually Google does not announce when it's going 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.280 to go through a certain community, so you know, you 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:43.720 kind of have to be at the ready all the 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.360 time if you really want to do something. And once 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.640 in a while they'll work with someone and and plan 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.400 ahead so they can do something particularly special. But there 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:56.960 have been plenty of spontaneous uh displays, let's say, of 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:02.079 people trying to to sneak in something into Google street View. Um. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.280 I saw an image not that long ago of a 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.320 young lady, I would say, of the college age, who 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:13.640 was obviously in the process of displaying her chest to 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.920 the Google street View car, perhaps going through the streets 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.280 of New Orleans doing during It looked to me like 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.520 it was going past the college campus. Tell you the truth, 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.400 but the the young lady was not quick enough on 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.920 the draw, so to speak. So there were there were 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.240 no um, well, there's no way to say it. There 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.920 were no boobies. There were no boobies in the photo. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:39.800 There was it was clearly pre booby revelation. So um. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.000 But you know what, ladies, keep on trying because I'm 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.920 sure one of you will eventually succeed. And I know 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.480 that that kind of fame is sort of thing that 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.200 I'll make you proud for the rest of your life. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:55.440 Stay classy tech stuff. All I'm saying I wouldn't do it. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.720 I mean, I'm not gonna judge you if you do 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.000 do it. But he there as gotta be better ways 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.439 to spend your time, like and there's There have been 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.719 some really cool displays, not like these goofy little like 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.839 flash Um Girls Gone Google street View. The one of 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:16.720 the cool ones was an art project in Pittsburgh, the 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.520 Street with a View project. Are you familiar with this one? 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.520 This one? I don't know. You've probably seen some of 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.200 the images and just didn't know it was part of 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.040 this this um this project. So this was a project 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.920 that uh that Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley came up 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.800 with back in two thousand and eight, and they knew 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.720 that Google was coming through this neighborhood in Pittsburgh, and 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.360 they wanted to create a series of tableau for the 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.000 street View car to capture as it drove down this 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:48.080 very narrow street. And so they created several different scenes, 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.440 not just you know one. So the street View ended 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.240 up passing a high school marching band in the middle 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:59.120 of a performance, UM, a parade, a marathon UM. There 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.880 was someone clear moving in or moving out of a 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.760 home because there was a big moving car with a 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.959 lot of stuff piled up. There was a garage band practicing. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.520 There was a mad scientist lab in a garage where 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.199 they were working on a love laser of some sort 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.560 um there, and there were reports that there were even 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.280 citizens of the neighborhood getting involved. Like they they saw 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.120 that something was going on, so they decided to put 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.360 on their own little little displays as well, which kind 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.160 of blurred the line between fantasy and reality, which was 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.360 really what this project was all about. Oh and the 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.560 image that that really got a lot of circulation in 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.720 the blogs. There was a couple of people out on 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.959 the lawn practicing with buffer weapons that you would see 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.040 in a LARP, you know, live action role playing buffer weapons. 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.440 So these two guys with these big these big shields 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.680 and padded swords just wailing the crap out of each other. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.880 And um, yeah, all of that was part of this project. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.959 And it's pretty cool. You can go to the street 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.439 with a view projects still up online and see the 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.000 images that came from it. You can you can drive essentially, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.320 you know, you virtually drive down the street and see 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.920 all these different tableau And uh, I believe you were 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.240 you the one who showed me that street view had 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:15.080 found a very hard to find person. Oh yeah I did. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:19.320 Um Actually, yeah, who to thunk it? Street View found 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:25.880 Waldo there. He was just there on the sidewalks. Shirt 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.040 Caane had the whole thing, the glasses. Waldo was right there. Yeah. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.320 I wish I had written down exactly what what town 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:33.960 that was in. I can't remember off the top of 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:38.040 my head. I did email that out um earlier. Funny. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.600 It was funny, and it's it's found some not so 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:47.120 fun stuff too. Um. As the recording of this podcast, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.240 there was a recent report that Google street View helped 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:56.720 capture a couple of ne'er dwells. Yes, some some yes, 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.720 some some kids who mugged a teenage Actually I don't 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.760 know that they were kids, but they were twins, twins 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.200 who mugged the teenager and stole his money and uh 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:10.320 bicycle and yeah, and his mobile phone and um. The photo, 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.000 the street view photo photo was taken just before the crime. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.080 And what happened was the kid the victim saw the 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.200 street view pictures, saw the twins. Those are the guys 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.160 who jumped me. They were able to track them down 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.520 and that one of the twins did admit to the crime. 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.840 And there you go. Actually, uh, he had to go 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.520 to a little effort though, because Google street View blurs 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.680 the faces of most of the people in the images. Yeah. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.960 This this came as it didn't always do that. This 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.040 came as a result of many people complaining that, you know, 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.800 your privacy is not being protected while the Google street 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.160 View cars driving on the streets. So let's say you're 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.600 walking out of someplace that you'd rather people not know 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:50.920 you're walking out of, like says I was thinking of 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.920 things like an adult bookstore or perhaps your mistress's home. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.400 You would not necessarily want everyone to be able to 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.200 see that, not your mistress Plott. I'm not suggesting that 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.760 you have a miss stress. I'm just yours and the 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:07.080 the universal you universe's mistress just laughing in our juxtaposition 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.200 of places we wouldn't want to be seen walking out of. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.160 Oh well yeah, beef jerky versus adult bookstore mistress is 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.640 home right, all right? Well, I'm being realistic and you're 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.400 being silly. So but people wrote in and said they 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.520 really didn't like the thought of And there are other 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.240 more innocent things that you might not want people seeing. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:26.960 They want you wouldn't want to see people to see 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:31.280 you walking out of, say a you know, a doctor's office, necessarily, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.480 because then people are gonna say, hey, what's wrong with you? 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.080 Are you all right? If you know, it's none of 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.120 their business, you don't want them to know that necessarily. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:41.240 So Google did take these these words to heart, and 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:45.760 they created an algorithm that detects faces and then blurs them. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:50.440 It's not flawless. And license plates to plates as well, Yes, 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.360 also blurs those out most of the time. Yes, And 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.680 also people who aren't actually people, but you know images 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.320 that look like faces, right right, So you may see 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.160 a mural on a wall that's all blurred out because 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.160 Google that they all grow them is detected as a face. Um. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.200 And also every now and then you'll see something really 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.360 really strange, Like you'll see someone walking down the street 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.160 and they don't appear to have a head. That's because 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.400 the cameras. It's it's where two different pictures, two different 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.240 images have been joined together, and of course the subject 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.680 is moving, as is the car, so that you're the 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.560 subject is not in the exact same place he or 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.120 she was when the first photo was taken. And so 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.320 when the two photos are joined together, you might get 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.600 something odd. So whenever there's a joint, you're gonna possibly 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.800 see some weird stuff if something was moving within the frame, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:39.920 the same thing that you get when you look at 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:44.720 the Gigapan photos, the Giant Panorama photos. Yeah. Now it's 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.600 it's fun to look at the pictures of uh, you 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.960 know what's going on up and down the street as 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.520 you you know, as the car was traveling. Um. I 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.840 particularly this sort of ties all these things together. Uh. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.120 One of my favorites is a series from Europe where 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.280 the street you car was going under a particularly low 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.840 bridge and of course that pole has mounted up pretty high, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.600 so you have all these pictures of you know, the 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.320 bridge coming up and then all of a sudden you 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.480 have pictures of the bumper of the car because it 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.280 knocked the pole right off the top of the car, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.280 and maybe just the sky. Oh yeah, yeah, you know. 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.680 Now we can go to Mars Lens cat through Google 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.040 street View. Uh. But you know there's a lot of 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.920 sites actually that have all kinds of uh images that 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.199 are weird, things intentionally shot or things they were just 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.080 you know, accidents like that, and uh, you know Europe actually, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.000 Europe is a place that's sort of difficult for Google 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.080 street View because there are a lot of privacy advocates 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.119 that are anti street view, especially in Germany, and there 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.040 there's some there's some good reasons behind that. I mean, 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.240 there's there's a couple of villages in England that object 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.600 to Google street View because they say that it would 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.320 allow criminals to case their houses from the comfort of 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.159 their own home. They wouldn't have to you know, they 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.000 wouldn't be you know, you wouldn't you would never notice 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.120 like that strange person who is lurking in a car 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.360 and has been sitting there for like five or six 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.720 minutes and you're wondering Okay, as this person checking out 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.560 my home to see if there's a way to break in, 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:11.919 you would never see that person because they could just 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.080 sit at home and look at that same image from 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.040 their computer and assuming they could find a way in 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.760 from the front, you know, or maybe the back if 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:21.800 if you have a road going right behind, or you know, 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.480 if you're on the corner lot or something. Um, then 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.879 there's a legitimate argument there saying, you know, you have 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:32.120 provided uh, these these people a chance to really look 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.560 at my house and possibly find a way in. Uh. 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.439 And some of the villages that that really objected to 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.679 Google street View. In fact, one of them, a a 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.320 group of sitisens formed a human chain and surrounded the 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.199 Google street View car would not allow it to go 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:48.439 into the village. Um. You know, they they point out 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.280 and says we've had a string of robberies and we 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.399 don't want it to get worse. Now, you could argue 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.600 that anyone at all could walk down the public street 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.920 and take photos and achieved the same thing. But then, 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.720 of course you've got the chance that since we'll see 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:07.360 that person just say hey, what what you doing exactly? Um? Yeah, 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.840 And they also wouldn't know when you were coming or going, 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:16.440 and you know, so lazy criminals really anyway, Um, but yeah, 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.120 and you were renting the height of the camera in Japan, uh, 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.359 they were asked to Google was asked to lower the 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.000 cameras because there are fences and the cameras would shoot 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.399 right over the fence and into people's yards, and they 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.640 didn't want The common complaint I heard was that now 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:34.960 people can see that, you know, my laundry as it's 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.240 hanging up. I'm thinking, well, they see it all the 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.600 time when it's on you. But I don't know, Maybe 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.480 maybe I'm just too practical that way. They probably didn't 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.360 want to get caught sunbathing, or getting arrested or urinating, 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.679 right right, all three of the same time. You know what, 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.359 I am not gonna lay out the challenge for text 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.840 stuff listeners, try and go out there and get Google 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.280 street you to take an image of them being arrested, sunbathing, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.160 and urinating at the same time. But all you stuff 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.760 you shoulder, here's a direct challenge. No, I'm just kidding. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.800 I'm just kidding that I don't I don't want any 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.359 phone calls saying, hey, this guy needs you to bail 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.000 him out because you're the one who convinced him to 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.639 get arrested. Yeah, yeah, well, um yeah, And in a 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.080 lot of these cases too, especially in countries where uh 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:24.040 whole governments have gotten involved in telling Google to stop 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:28.840 taking pictures or at least start trying harder to protect privacy. Um, 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:34.640 Google is is keeping images the originals pre blur um 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.560 for a less time. They're basically keeping them long enough 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:41.120 to blur them and then getting rid of the originals. Um. 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:45.080 And uh, you know, basically, they're they're trying to be 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:50.679 more diligent about blurring out identifiable personal information such as 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.239 faces and the license plate numbers of cars and and 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:55.680 things like that, trying to make themselves, I guess, a 0:20:55.720 --> 0:21:01.480 little bit more friendly to organizations and company, right, people 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.320 who might object to them and complain to the government. 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:05.800 And you may wonder why does Google even do this 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.639 at all. Well, it's because their their mission is to 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:14.000 organize the world's information. And you might think, yeah, exactly, 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:16.639 But you might think, hey, I thought that just applied 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:18.840 to the Internet. Well, Google does not seem to think so. 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:22.560 Google thinks of the world's information as the world's information. 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:25.080 So really the Internet was just how they got started 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.359 that's kind of crazy, don't you think it's It's cool 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:30.600