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Google wants to better blur faces and plate numbers in its Street View service, but refuses to reduce the height of the camera that takes pictures. The company is responding to certain recommendations of the Federal Data Protection.

To improve the process of anonymous faces and vehicles, Google will use a new version of its software, the company said. Currently, Google Street View automatically blurs faces and license plates, but the system does not always work.

The American company refuses cons of reducing the height of the camera that takes pictures of streets of Swiss cities. The camera is currently set on a pole placed on a car.

Google hopes to continue photographing buildings and signs so that we can recognize them. “Reducing the height of the mast would also bring the camera in the faces of passersby,” the firm wrote.

The Federal Data Protection had requested that the camera is set so that it can not photograph the gardens or private lessons.