I guess next this will be required for new account setup, then to retain access to your existing account.
Time to move the last few things I have out of Google (mostly shared documents). I’m glad I started this move several years ago.
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
#62The fact that most people will love this is depressing.
Can you please explain why it is depressing? This feature is widely celebrated in the accessibility user groups in India, since the traditional sign-in methods have been proven to be a major friction point for users with special needs.
The same reason age identity verification is getting a lot of push back..? This is dystopian on another level.
We are gong to reach a state of total digital surveillance without regulation at this point.
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#63>If you've violated a Google policy, we may save your selfie video for a longer period of time to enforce our policies.
Is this a quote? I don't see it on the page.
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#64The fact that most people will love this is depressing.
Can you please explain why it is depressing? This feature is widely celebrated in the accessibility user groups in India, since the traditional sign-in methods have been proven to be a major friction point for users with special needs.
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#65>If you've violated a Google policy, we may save your selfie video for a longer period of time to enforce our policies.
Is this a quote? I don't see it on the page.
Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#66Next step is to require the full transcript of your genome! /s
Funnily enough they already have that since it was _emailed_ to me.
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#67I'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!"
Drink your verification can.
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#69Introducing...a feature no one actually wants, that opens a brand new security attack surface. Much wow.
Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
#70Is this basically “Video KYC” as required in some countries to open a bank account?
No government has yet regulated online services to require financial KYC compliance afaik, other than banking services which are already covered by ‘banking’. To the best of my understanding, the regulations about age verification don’t tend to mandate forever storage of the identity data, only storage of the verification outcome — even if business misrepresent that in order to harvest, train, aggregate, resell. (Whatever China is doing is not KYC: the government performs the Know verb in those cases, rather than the business.)