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Is Google pushing the card on privacy invasion?

Mango avatar
MangoSoWal Insider
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Google Making App that would Identify People's Faces

Googleis working on a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director for the project said this week. In order to be identified by the software, people would have to check a box agreeing to give Google permission to access their pictures and profile information, said Hartmut Neven, the Google engineering director for image-recognition development.
Google's Profiles product includes a user's name, phone number and e-mail address. Google has not said what personal data might be displayed once a person is identified by its facial-recognition system.


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Sorry, it's bad enough that everytime I go to a web page, a retailer pops that I visited, knows what I bought or what I am looking for, and FB has the ads on the side of things that I have searched, not to mention it puts ads on the side based on what I wrote on my profile page.


Today, I put that I was growing a Mario mustache and shaving creme ads came up. :shock:

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Matt J avatar
Matt JSWGB
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I'm sure Miss Kitty is setting off alarms all over Las Vegas. Facial recognition technology has been around for more than a decade, now it's just coming to the masses.
scooterbug44 avatar
scooterbug44SoWal Expert
#3
At least they have the option for you to opt in - unlike Facebook's automatic photo tags, you can only be identified by this IF YOU SIGN UP.

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