Google “Art App” Security Concerns For Facial Recognition
Have you used the Google Art App where you take a selfie and your face is compared to a historic person in the art culture of the world?
Selfie lovers in Illinois and Texas haven’t been able to use the free app that by the way, has gone viral.
The reason is that Illinois and Texas both have laws regarding “biometric privacy” which us the use facial recognition to digitally identity people, which means that the selfies being taken in Texas and Illinois aren’t legally allowed to be identified by Google, or any other company, without user consent. Google has responded by saying that they do not use the selfies or facial recognition for anything and throws out the data after it has been used. But think about it, why would you give out your facial id when this is the exact technology that is being used for security purposes now?
