Google has admitted to mishandling the situation after protest slogans in Hong Kong were found to be blurred out on its Street View Map.

The technology giant recognized that it “didn’t get it right” after local media outlet Hong Kong Free Press found that some protest graffiti had been blurred out from its map feature.

The protest slogans were automatically obscured by algorithms — the same ones that blur out car registration plates and human faces — designed to protect privacy, Google said.

As of Friday, graffiti that had been sprayed along Nathan Road during last year’s protests against a now-withdrawn extradition bill, was still blurred out from some angles in the Street View mode of Google Map.

The government had declared the graffitied slogans to be subversive after the implementation of the city’s controversial national security law in June, although no individuals have been convicted so far for chanting such slogans. The slogans have since been scrubbed away by authorities.

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