Former Google CEO — and current Google evangelist — Eric Schmidt made his thoughts on facial recognition very absolved yesterday , tell it was “ very concerning , ” and that Google would n’t dream of a database like that . Except they did ! In moony patent of invention form .
There had already been a social - networking based facial identification Google patenton the booksthat surface in February . And today the USPTO coughed up another Google plot to automagicallyidentify the face of famous peopleto aid with mental image search .
A letters patent is , of course , just a letters patent , and lots ( most ? ) of the ideas that companies imbed legal flagstone in never hail to realization . But at some point in the last few years — when Schmidt was call the snap — Google put significant time and effort into knowing us by our noses . Which is fine ! What ’s more very interest is that they ’re now acting like the’d never stoop so low . [ Atlantic Wire ]
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