[Update: Google responds to concerns] Google is stopping people in the street to buy their face data — possibly for Pixel 4's 'Face ID'

• Update 1: 2019/07/29 1:31pm PDT
  Google describes why it needs this data, and how it will protect volunteer privacy

If you're working on any kind of software that utilizes facial recognition — a secure Face ID camera system for a phone is just one example that comes to mind — you need a good amount of data in order to train the AI that powers it. Google isn't exactly new to the data collection game, but you might be surprised to learn that it's been doing so via such an old-fashioned method.

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[Update: Google responds to concerns] Google is stopping people in the street to buy their face data — possibly for Pixel 4's 'Face ID' was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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