Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Google Glass: facial recognition coming soon

The controversial Google Glass computer could soon recognise who you are talking to thanks to a new ‘hack’.

Google has been at pains to remind users that Glass itself does not include facial recognition, and has come under pressure from American senators to answer questions they claim the wearable computer raises over privacy. But the device's terms and conditions do not explicitly forbid using the device’s camera to detect faces and then to identify them via Glass’s screen, which sits above the user's right eye and is visible only to them. The terms do, however, forbid diverse other actions including developers reselling Glass or using it to make money from advertising.