Basically this, when you watch the news, the faces are not blurred out, those that are just passing by or such but when you use google maps, they blur out peoples faces and such. Both are publicly accessible and I just wonder what the difference is.
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Well I’m not sure that the technology to blur live news in real time is necessarily available to all news stations, but even if it is, the real answer is that that technology definitely wasn’t available back when live news first became a thing. This is a case a cultural and institutional inertia, where the way they originally did it was dictated by what technology was available at the time, and then it just never changed because, well, ‘that’s how we’ve always done it’. Back in the day it was much harder to identify people just from a face anyway, especially when it was only going to be shown for a few moments on the live news broadcast and then gone forever unless somebody bothered to record it. But Google was building a brand new kind of media in an area with different capabilities available, so they did things differently.
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