Google street view blurs COW’S face in hilarious privacy mix-up
One keen-eyed user noted the grazing animal's face had been blurred by Google's privacy app
GOOGLE has caused hilarity on social media after a keen-eyed user spotted something strange on their street view app.
While taking a close look at a riverside park, David Shariatmadari noticed a cow's face had been blurred by the search engine.
The face-blurring feature is usually used to protect humans' privacy when they are caught on the map.
But it seems Google will even go so far as to make sure livestock can not be identified.
The animal was snapped grazing beside the River Cam at Coe Fen, Cambridge.
Its face can be clearly seen in an image just moments before - but for some reason its identity has been kept a secret in a second snapshot.
David tweeted the hilarious screen-grab alongside the caption: "Great to see Google takes cow privacy seriously."
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It received more than 9,000 retweets and over 12,000 likes in response - with users commenting on the hilarious mishap.
One quipped "Google teat view", while another joked: "Cows should dress more modestly so they don't have to have their faces blurred in shame."
Google admitted its face-blurring technology can be "a little overzealous" at times.
Street view launched in 2007 and has caught many hilarious moments on its world cameras.
Photos are taken by cars mounted with cameras, which map streets across the globe.
For privacy reasons software automatically blurs human faces.
A spokesman for Google said: "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."
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