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What part of this is surveillance though? Within a particular Google Photos account the faces of humans (and pets) are identified and then labeled by the accoun
by esprehn 4y ago
What part of this is surveillance though? Within a particular Google Photos account the faces of humans (and pets) are identified and then labeled by the account owner. Google doesn't match faces across accounts, doesn't use the data for ads, and is doing effectively what a human could do by scrolling through the photos and manually circling faces with a pen.
- shadowgovt 4y agoIt's ultimately irrelevant to the Texas code whether Google is correlating the data across sources, because what the Texas code banned was collecting the data in the first place, not the way it's collated and used. There's some sense to that approach; people don't want to trust that the only thing keeping Google from doing the cross-correlation is their own corporate ethics. I ultimately think trying to ban the intake in that way is bailing the Titanic, but I think I see where they're coming from.
- googlryas 4y agoBut the data is just photos. Is any photo hosting service illegal in Texas now? The biometric data is literally in any photograph of you. And the data is entirely isolated within a single account. I have tens of thousands of photos in my google account, and thousands with my wife. Right now, google can show me photos of me and my wife. Is the idea that I'm supposed to ask for some kind of consent from my wife before I'm allowed to ask google to show me photos of me and my wife, but I can go through my account and just select photos of me and my wife?