Notorious Mafia Fugitive Caught Chilling on Google Street View

Posted by ericliuche on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:49PM
from the vice.com dept.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7v79v/notorious-mafia-fugitive-caught-chilling-on-google-street-view

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Re:Notorious Mafia Fugitive Caught Chilling on Google Street... by rdtwo on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:09PM (#29828320)

They must be scanning faces though a database then. Usually the faces are blurred out so Google must be scanning and identify all the people they see on street view for whatever reason

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Re:Notorious Mafia Fugitive Caught Chilling on Google Street... by blywi on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:52PM (#29828993)

According to the Guardian article [1] they had already traced him down to Spain and only used Google Maps to confirm their leads.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/05/italian-mafia-...

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