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Google's Got A New Face-Tracking Camera For Your Home
CNET ^ | 09/09/19 | Ry Crist

Posted on 09/09/2019 1:46:08 PM PDT by Enlightened1

It's no longer just always-listening microphones -- Google's new Nest Hub Max smart display adds a camera that's always scanning for faces.

Google Home and Nest Hub gadgets already feature microphones that are always listening for the words that wake up the Assistant ("OK, Google" or "Hey, Google"). Now, the search giant's newest gadget for your home, the Nest Hub Max smart display, adds in a camera that's always watching for a familiar face.

Google calls the feature Face Match, and it uses facial recognition technology to remember what you look like. After that, you can tap on the screen to see personalized bits of data like calendar appointments and Google Duo messages whenever it recognizes you.

The Nest Hub Max isn't the first product to bring facial recognition technology -- and the legal and ethical considerations that come with it -- into people's homes. Smart phones have been using the technology to let us unlock our devices and authorize purchases for years, and a growing number of smart home gadgets that use cameras are putting it to use, too, including Google's own Nest Hello video doorbell.

Still, it's a product that seeks to give Google a wider window into our lives at a time when the company is already facing questions about the way it handles our personal data. I wanted to take a closer look at how those privacy standards apply when you add always-watching cameras into the mix.

 

 

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alwayson; camera; google; mic; spying
So when you think you are opting out.... Google is still listening and videoing everything.

Do not forget that Amazon and Apple are doing the same thing too.

1 posted on 09/09/2019 1:46:08 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Gee, that could be handy...


2 posted on 09/09/2019 1:48:00 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Enlightened1

I asked Google when she was going to have robots.

She said she didn’t know when.


3 posted on 09/09/2019 1:49:58 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Enlightened1

I imagine that it will need to feed scads of data back to Google to “improve the user experience”.


4 posted on 09/09/2019 1:51:03 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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To: Enlightened1

I heard on mark levin’s show last night that Google and Amazon have a close relationship = help each other.


5 posted on 09/09/2019 1:51:04 PM PDT by Karoo
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To: Enlightened1

That reminds me

I need to put a new piece of tape on the camera of my iPad.


6 posted on 09/09/2019 1:51:20 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: bigbob

Very

7 posted on 09/09/2019 1:51:34 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Enlightened1

8 posted on 09/09/2019 1:53:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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9 posted on 09/09/2019 1:53:53 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Obscured by Clods)
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Google calls the feature Face Match

Can it recognize illegal immigrants and report them?

10 posted on 09/09/2019 2:11:48 PM PDT by cabojoe
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I use an old plastic card with a piece of tape to make a hinge on the top.
I just flip the card up if I need to use the cam. That happens a couple times a year.
11 posted on 09/09/2019 2:12:40 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m thinking the button definitely doesn’t match the dress in that picture.

But what do I know???


12 posted on 09/09/2019 2:19:35 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: Enlightened1

Really.

I haven’t owned a boob tube since March of 1995.

My wife’s old phone never had a camera, and my phone has black electrical tape over the lense. I frequently take the battery out and charge it on an external battery charger.


13 posted on 09/09/2019 2:50:30 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Enlightened1

Maybe it is past time for facial recognition and retinal scanning to replace most if not all of our damn passwords, door locks, safes and other security pathways.


14 posted on 09/09/2019 2:52:54 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The line that separates satire and Democrat Stupid has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Enlightened1

At least you’ll know exactly what your spouse’s lover looks like when you hunt them down.


15 posted on 09/09/2019 3:05:14 PM PDT by bgill
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16 posted on 09/09/2019 3:08:27 PM PDT by bgill
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Can you configure it to look down the street for a certain kind of ass?


17 posted on 09/09/2019 3:22:23 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Enlightened1

I work very hard to keep my home the dumbest in town. Google, Amazon, Apple, M$FT can all go take a leap.

Friend of mine is just the opposite. He recently bragged bigtime how his bedroom lights are on a “SMART” dimmer switch and he can control the brightness from his computer in the den or from his “SMART” phone. I kept my mouth shut but really, what a dumb idea. But it’s his money...


18 posted on 09/09/2019 3:27:09 PM PDT by upchuck (If democrats would stop shooting people gun violence would drop by 90% ~ h/t Mr K.)
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To: bgill

BOL!


19 posted on 09/09/2019 3:41:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The line that separates satire and Democrat Stupid has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Karoo

Google, Amazon and China.


20 posted on 09/09/2019 5:12:16 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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