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After privacy complaints, Google is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however.

Users can click the 'report a problem' button under the Street View image to ask Google to blur the image.

It’s no wonder then that dozens of legal disputes on several continents have forced the company to now allow users to blur Street View and Satellite View images taken without their consent.

Google Maps Street View provides users with on-the-ground views of what locations around the world look like. However, there’s much more to the tool than just mundane images of the planet.

(NEXSTAR) – It’s not uncommon to scroll through Google Street View and find a home that’s been blurred from view at the request of the homeowner, whether for privacy or security reasons.