“Google will not allow apps that implement facial recognition on its Google Glass product, the company says, citing privacy concerns, after an American company said it would offer a commercial service to recognise celebrities and others,” Charles Arthur reports for The Guardian.
“Developers have pointed out though that it is possible to load apps – which Google calls ‘Glassware’ – onto the wearable system without needing Google’s permission,” Arthur reports. “Those could then communicate with any of a growing number of services which say they can connect a name with a face once given a photo.”
Arthur reports, “Equally, users could simply upload still pictures to other online services which would provide the facial recognition service. “A ‘ban’ is purely symbolic,” commented Martin Macdonald, a marketing director for Expedia EAN who has tried Google Glass. The developers behind Lambda Labs, which offers a paid-for facial recognition service, tweeted: ‘Don’t worry, we think it’s a core feature. Google will allow it or be replaced with something that does.'”
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