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Google Street View Blurs Cow's Face For Privacy

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Google will stop at nothing to protect identities of those seen on Street View...even if those seen are cows.

A giggle-inducing image is making the rounds on social media, showing a cow's face blurred out in Cambridge, England.

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A spokesman for Google told BBC that the act of privacy over-protection was due to an overactive automated system.

"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," the statement reportedly read.

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