Dead Bodies Showing Up on Street View Brazil
*Warning: This article contains images which some readers may find upsetting*
Earlier this week, Google announced that Street View had gone live in Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica. However, it seems the Google Street View car captured some fairly disturbing images when photographing the streets of Brazil.
Gizmodo reports that Google is working quickly to remove pictures of dead bodies and otherwise disturbing imagery from Street View Brazil. One such image shows police at the scene of a murder, while another shows a man who has been hit by a car. CNet's Chris Matyszczyk points to another image that depicts a man making a phone call and standing over someone who appears to be, at the very least, unconscious. Another picture shows what appears to be an altercation between three men while others look on.
Many of these pictures have been posted to Street Viu, a Tumblr account set up for Brazilian users to contribute interesting Street View images. Though the pictures of dead people are frightening, it's clear that the Street View cars captured plenty of great scenes too. These include a crowd of children gathering to wave their native flags at the passing camera; students running after the Google cars in an attempt to be captured on film; and Google Street View cars taking pictures of each other.
Images via: Gizmodo, CNet, Street Viu
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Wow.. I know it's a lot of data but Google should at least go over the pics first...
Well thats kinda of creepy...
Good game
i know its not funny but......its funny...
Wow.. I know it's a lot of data but Google should at least go over the pics first...
Or the guys driving the cars could take note of the places where they come across disturbing situations and flag photos that they feel need manual review.
i know it is hundreds of thousands of photos, but they don't have some interns they can put in front of a computer to do this? or have some "report" button?
on an unrelated note, Antarctica has streets?
Why remove them?
Viva Brazil!
I think if you are going to add a warning it should actually be a pre-load page. Or even something like spoilers on a forum.
I think if you are going to add a warning it should actually be a pre-load page. Or even something like spoilers on a forum.
Anyone viewing the page from the Tom's Guide homepage or tomshardware.com/news will see the warning before they click through. The front page of TH doesn't allow headlines over a certain amount of characters and does not show the post's lead (the part of every article that is in bold), so yes, people clicking through from there will not be warned until after they click but this was the best I could do.
I saw plenty of crazy things like that during my time spent in Brazil, so they can plan on running into PLENTY more things like this!
They should leave them up there so you know what you are getting into if you plan to travel there.
I think if you are going to add a warning it should actually be a pre-load page. Or even something like spoilers on a forum.
"Dead Bodies Showing Up on Street View Brazil" want enough of a warning?
i question the intelligence of humanity allot and i give them enough credit, but do i give you to much?
I never realized how violent it was in brazil... the only brazilian i even knew was blanka, and he seemed pretty crazy.
So we can Photoshop out faces to hide identities but we can't show dead bodies with blood and guts oozing from their corpses? Makes sense.
/sarcasm
on an unrelated note, Antarctica has streets?
There's nothing in Antarctica, it's just that Google couldn't fire someone who brought an iPhone to work so they sent them to Antarctica instead
Or the guys driving the cars could take note of the places where they come across disturbing situations and flag photos that they feel need manual review.
These are the same drivers that are in the news getting tickets from the police all the time too.
i see dead people
It's the new Google view, cemetery view it's a beta launch..... dead people & dead penguins.
Why can't they be there while it's happening or help in catching the people who are doing it??? Why is it that it's always after or before the crime that they turn up???
There ought to be better use of gMaps and gSV not just picking on the dead guys or driving into lake, it ought to be able to stop such stuff from happening....
Isn't that the whole point of progress??
Soon there will be pictures of the Google Maps car driver being jacked. Or Google will have difficulty getting further imagery because people steal the cameras off the cars. For all the progress that Brazil has made in the last 20 years, there still remains MUCH social and political issues to be addressed. I know, I used to live there, lived through hyper inflation, lived through a mugging at age 8, relatives and friends being car jacked, my house being broken into, tourists getting their hands chopped off for their nice watches/jewelry/Nike shoes, etc. Most of it still goes on today.
Oh dead bodies, big deal. Just imagine you're seeing it on a TV show or a movie.
Well, at least we know where not to go in the world now.
O poor street view,
every day,
something strange
rises up for you!
So whats creepy about that. Isn't Street View about reality? It's the reality.
O poor street view,every day, something strangerises up for you!
Yeah sure! People don't want to admit they suck too much!
so yes, people clicking through from there will not be warned until after they click but this was the best I could do.
But if Jack Thompson's right, we're all desensitised, cold-blooded killers anyway so a 320x240 JPEG of what looks like a sleeping drunk spilling his cranberry juice won't phase us one bit.
Hang on, I described the second picture as a "sleeping drunk spilling his cranberry juice".
LOL, I love it how google takes pictures of their own cars.
Well... at least Google blurred the face of the headless body...
We could use a new feature... Street View at NIGHT!
What the hell! Being Brazilian I am a little pissed off about seeing that. I suppose those pictures are from Rio where that kind of stuff is actually common place, but still.
I live in Brazil since I was born and I've NEVER seen a dead body in my life (27yo).
Where is the exact location of the dead body?
Looks more like GTA Google Edition than google earth.
Oh Brazil, will you never stop your zany antics?