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"Find My Face" Google assures users full control

The U.S. Internet giant Google launches social network for users of its Google + face recognition software.

The group doing research for years to have the appropriate technology, but they want to use only if both the protection of privacy was assured, Google's data protection officer Peter Fleischer said Thursday in a company blog.

Be "Find My Face" has enabled by the user

The software called "Find My Face" will only be active when the user before they've unlocked. Will the program is activated by the user on the photo of another user to select by name ("tag to"), he shall so far as being asked for his permission and could prevent the mark.

The program aims to facilitate the marking of people in photos. If a user in an image Google + wants to publish, analyze "Find My Face" the faces of the people in them. For those who have allowed the program before accessing their biometric data and that it recognizes, it provides a suggested name, the owner can read and confirm the photo. The people are identified according to release before the release of the information but asked again if they also agree with the mark. Google secures therefore also to remove all facial profile data again when a user "Find My Face" is disabled later.

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face detection controversial

Automatic face recognition programs are due to their potential impact on the privacy and the privacy of Internet users highly controversial. To have the appropriate software from Google competitor Facebook has been around a long controversy.

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