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Someone felt I was wrong when calling Google creepy the other day.

My mistake. Why would facial recognition connected with Google be creepy. It's... "convenient". So convenient....to have Google help you provide that feature... Yeah.

Google. Not creepy. Sane.

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> The Shape Detection API makes a device's shape detection capabilities available on the web, letting you identify faces, barcodes, and text in images.

This sounds like a boon for blind users. Your browser can now leverage device capabilities to interpret more than just text.

Like any technology it can be used to do good and bad things. Unfortunately in this universe helping blind people is a lot less profitable than snatching user face, voice and personal data to clone existing identities or build fake ones. In the modern Internet anything that can be exploited or abused will be; hence the mistrust. So thanks but no thanks.

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