Google Discussing Facial Recognition Technology
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said if the company were ever to implement facial recognition technology, they would have to be extremely careful about it.
The Financial Times reports that recent criticisms of Google's privacy policies have forced managers within the search company to reconsider procedures as well as the decision to launch facial recognition software. The idea is said to be the subject of one of the biggest internal debates at the moment and the CEO Eric Schmidt says that any decision regarding facial recognition software would have to be well thought out and discussed at great length.
"Facial recognition is a good example . . . anything we did in that area would be highly, highly planned, discussed and reviewed," FT quotes Schmidt as saying. "When you go through these things, you review your management procedures."
However, Schmidt didn't rule out the possibility, saying, "It is important that we continue to innovate."
Though already present in Google's photo sharing site Picasa, facial recognition technology is not something the company has implemented across other products. Faces in Google Maps are blurred out and though some people go out of their way to be seen by the Google Street View team, others are no where near as happy to be photographed.
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Reminds me of HP's "racist" facial recognition technology...
Facial recognition by Google: yet another way to monitor users and sell any remotely useful info to advertisers. Adds specifically tailored for the age, gender, race, specific facial issues like excessive acne,...
If Google offers a service and it's free, it's probably used to gather as much info about users as possible. Don't be evil sounds so nice in theory, but they don't live up to it.
Privacy is hugely important to me. It's a fundamental part of a democracy and it cannot be maintained if a random company knows everything I do. The government monitors a lot of things I do and that's somewhat unpleasant, but if private companies get such info, it gets fishy imo...
It's "Racism" technology.