Google has banned face recognition software for Google Glass

It seems that Google decided to listen to the opinions of people who are dissatisfied with some of the features of Google Glass, including the potential feature of recognizing the faces of people who meet glasses. Of course, the problem is not only in software that recognizes faces, there are still a lot of problematic issues, but Google has already recognized the problems raised by both government agencies and individuals. As a result, an updated company policy for Google Glass has appeared.

In particular, in the place where we are talking about the possible recognition of people's faces “on the fly”, Google posted the following text: “a large number of people expressed both interest and concern related to the ability to recognize faces on Google Glass. For many years, Google has already said that we will not add software with the ability to recognize them in our products without developing a reliable personal data protection scheme. With this in mind, for the time being we are not going to endorse software capable of recognizing people's faces (Glassware). ”
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By the way, the question arises - what prevents the user from getting root to Google Glass (what has already been done), with the ability to install any software, including third-party face recognition applications? Probably nothing in the way.

Before the introduction of points into widespread access (and this should happen around 2014), the corporation will obviously have to work hard to eliminate particularly acute issues related to the problems with the protection of the privacy of people encountered by Google Glass owners.

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