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by lmkg 2378 days ago
To save y'all a click: The alleged biometrics in question are the use of facial-recognition software on photos uploaded to Google Photos (without informed consent from the user).
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I remember google popping up a consent to store the AI models for the facial recognition locally on my phone (not in the cloud)! If this is the case, the lawyers are wasting their time, I guess.
That gets the event of the person who's phone it is, not the people in the photos.
I've never received a popup like that, nor ever heard of anyone receiving one. Are you in Illinois?
UK. I recently bought a new phone and when I opened google photos app for the first time, it asked to store local trained models to enable AI features for the app.