On 2025-11-18, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
?Boy Walking?, an oversize sculpture of a young boy in Dominion Road,
?? Auckland has had his face blurred in both Google?s and Apple?s map services. Why? Clearly it was an AI-driven decision where an algorithm
has mistakenly concluded that this is a picture of a real, giant,
human boy.
Google was asked about this, and responded that such face-blurring
decisions, whether justified or not, are ?permanent?.
<https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/google-and-apple-blur-face-of-tamaki- >makauraus-dominion-road-boy/IH3RY7JS4BG6BH2XAH7W7GLHQQ/>
This reminds me of a science fiction short story i read. Sadly, i
cannot recall the title. The protagonist was one of the last
surgeons who had natural eyes, the rest had opted for enhanced vision.
In this future, medical privacy was legally enforced. Patients could
file in advance for any level of medical privacy. At the highest
level of privacy, their names and faces would be blanked out by
medical systems including the enhanced vision common in surgeons. It
basically amounted to a digital Do Not Resuscitate.
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