April fools?
Not for google. They'll want your family member photos next
They already have them, on Google Photos.
Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
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Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#12This sounds... totally normal. Emphasis on "totally". But I guess Google coming out with a cloud-based FaceID clone was just a matter of time... apart from using just a vastly larger amount of 2D photos and more precise PI techniques, instead of that stupid local-only, small-AI-based, 3D-scanning technique that falls back to passwords... eh, I prefer Apple as my good cop ever since I can afford Apple devices
Face ID is private on device. This is stored by Google and they will keep it longer if you "violate their policies".
Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#13>If you've violated a Google policy, we may save your selfie video for a longer period of time to enforce our policies.
Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#14Meanwhile google has been locking out and closing the gmail accounts of people, myself included, that signed up before a phone number was required. If you don't log into your account for ~a year or so they will lock it and demand you log in. Which you can do, and you can even input the 2FA code, but it still won't let you log in because it says "there's not enough information to prove this is your account" despite having all the information ever associated with it. The only way to prevent deletion is to add a completely new, never before there phone number. I couldn't do that so they deleted mine saying I never logged in despite logging in literally dozens of times.
Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#15This seems like a terrible idea because deepfakes are getting better and better, even with them mentioning them and handwaving concerns away.
Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#16Google already have 5,000 odd photos of me anyway in Google photos. I'm screwed either way.
Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#17I'm waiting for the new killer feature where "Sign In With Google" popup overlay dialogs go away forever and never come back.
Fucking hell, they modified Chrome/ium to pop up an application dialog (it's not just somr HTML inside the web page) to "log-in using Google".. fuck Google!
Maybe next they'll get Chrome to automatically turn on your webcam, capture your face and say "Thanks for logging in!"
Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#18I'm waiting for the new killer feature where "Sign In With Google" popup overlay dialogs go away forever and never come back.
Guess what, there are browser settings for that!
Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#19This sounds... totally normal. Emphasis on "totally". But I guess Google coming out with a cloud-based FaceID clone was just a matter of time... apart from using just a vastly larger amount of 2D photos and more precise PI techniques, instead of that stupid local-only, small-AI-based, 3D-scanning technique that falls back to passwords... eh, I prefer Apple as my good cop ever since I can afford Apple devices
Face ID is private on device. This is stored by Google and they will keep it longer if you "violate their policies".
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Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#20Certainly this will never go wrong in any possible way.