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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.
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:
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.
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:
