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Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand (docs.cloud.google.com)
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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The videos are never associated with a user's identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.

I actually believe them. It's gonna start out this way. But in a year or two, they'll quietly slip in a provision stating they will hold on to the images for a short time for security purposes, then they will say that they will associate your image with your identity to make it more secure, then Google's AI will know everything about everyone (and sell the info to the highest bidder)

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe them as well from a very literal perspective. The video will be deleted but the metadata that is created from the video will not.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

100% this. The fingerprint is what they use for reidentification.

I've spoken to a number of companies in this space while searching for one that uses a ZKP and a user-held VC of the fingerprint vs the server storing it (for use with a Linux Foundation labs project). I ended up rolling my own using FOSS face models.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It should be considered a universal law of corporate behavior: any information that has theoretical value will eventually be sold.

Even if current management has no intention of exploiting it, they’ll be replaced by the board, or the division and its data will be spun off and sold for its IP—that’s just corporate nature (i.e., the purpose of a system is what it does).

[–] br3d@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This will be like the proof of age face scans. Yes, the VIDEO is deleted, but the unique biometric code describing your face sure as hell won't be deleted. Focusing on deleting the video has got to be a deliberate distraction