The opposition to Google’s street view continues, and now they have to develop the very technology I suggested to them at my interview in order to comply with French law!

I have no sympathy for them whatsoever; they ignored good advice and must now face the consequences of their decisions. People will keep suing them and suing them until they decide it’s time to give people their privacy back.

Update: And several lawsuits and noncompliance with French law were apparently all that were necessary, as they finally began to blur faces in street view. Still, this was something I suggested to them nearly a year ago, the implementation of which would take me under a week to code on a normal scale (granted, I have no idea how it would scale up to the size of Google’s data), and had they timely followed up on that advice, they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble.