I am suspicious of the IR/depth capabilities that will allegedly be on the new Pixel 4 for this reason. There's not a huge user demand for depth data, but ther

I am suspicious of the IR/depth capabilities that will allegedly be on the new Pixel 4 for this reason. There's not a huge user demand for depth data, but there are great reasons Google might want to collect and process that data from its users. This, along with the previous changes to make the photo capability be a short video capture that gets sent to Google, make me very suspicious about what they are doing with all of that data. Things like the facial action coding system for microexpression analysis have been around for decades for anyone with a college library card. It's just been very difficult for software to parse from video. I can definitely see the camera changes making this a lot easier.