Glasses with data privacy: Google Glass gets no face recognition ... - ABC Online

The possibilities of Google Goggles are great – the concern also. By unnoticed films up to retrieve the Facebook profile of the opponent: Privacy advocates warn against abuse. Now, Google has responded and speaks from a first ban.

Google will allow on his computer glasses Glass at least for now no apps with Face Detection function. The Internet company took an express prohibition on the rules for software developers. Google will not add face recognition to its products before the protection of privacy was assured, the company said in the early hours of Saturday.

Google Glass, the computer glasses with camera and small screen before the eye of the user, had from the beginning triggered to privacy concerns. Some software developers that already began to think of applications with face recognition. Another concern is that Glass-carrier could photograph people without their knowledge in their environment. Google Apps now banned, take photos or videos with screen off – it would at least be seen that the glasses are just at

Many industries are expected to very interested in the possibilities of the new glasses.. Users should shopping with simple commands for example at Amazon or to read the latest breaking news. But the porn industry has registered interest.