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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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