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by iron0012 3060 days ago
I understand and appreciate the concern for privacy, but something important was diminished when Google Maps started blurring the faces of people who appeared in Street View. I was surprised by the degree to which the previous sense of immediacy and vitality, the feeling that "you are there" was so severely crippled when the face of every human became a blur. :(