A journalist came across a Google Street View image of cows grazing by the banks of the River Cam in Cambridge, England and made an amusing discovery.
The cow in the forefront of the image has its face blurred. Another cow that can be seen in the image did not have its face blurred.
For privacy reasons, people’s faces are often blurred to protect their identity when they have not given their consent to be photographed.
But does a cow have the same rights to privacy?
David Shariatmadari, an editor for The Guardian, ran across the August 2015 image and posted it on Twitter. The image quickly went viral, inspiring many amusing comments.
Google said that the blurred cow face was due to an "overactive automated system." But the company couldn't help but have a bit of fun in an official statement to the BBC:
"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. Of course, we don't begrudge this cow milking its five minutes of fame."
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