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BBC TV’s Top Gear programme features a famously mysterious racing driver known only as “The Stig“, who (ironically for someone so secretive about their identity) can be found in numerous places on Google Street View. More bizarre however are Google’s efforts to remove all traces of him! When Google first launched UK Street View, we were delighted to find a photo of the The Stig apparently hanging out at the BBC. We were a little crushed upon discovery that is simply a cardboard cutout of the famously reclusive driver. Then, when Street View visited the roads around Loch Ness, the actual honest-to-goodness real Stig was found! Clearly he had been waiting there for the Google car – but why? Whatever the reason, Google didn’t like it; within a few days the Stig’s entire personage had been pixellated beyond recognition (clearly blurring his face wasn’t going to be very effective). If we revisit the banks of Loch Ness today we find that Google has since gone even further, and has completely