Google Street View blurs Colonel Sanders everywhere.

However, he is still visible from space, via Google Maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Ironically Colonel Sanders was ashamed of the franchise (last paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Sanders#Death_and_legac...) so I think he'd approve of this :)

The algorithm probably only categorizes faces opposed to identifies faces - to recognize a logo vs human is a waste of time.

I'm suddenly reminded of the uncanny valley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley ). Google's algorithm would appear to still be in stuffed animal territory. I wonder if Google will gradually tweak their algorithm to become better at identifying real faces with these logos will gradually reappear in Street View...

Or perhaps we'll see them gradually recognizing logos and other things and indexing them?

I don't know if anyone else has ever noticed this, but lots of street view pictures will have random face shaped blurs on walls and such. My guess is google has set a very low false-negative threshold for face identification, and are thus willing to tolerate blurring lots of non-face objects (which isn't really much of a loss, anyways, and definitely tolerable if it means the difference between every real face being blurred and missing 1 out of 100).

The article didn't need to be more than the title and the picture, but that's modern "journalism" for you...