Google Can Tell If Someone Is Looking at Your Phone over Your Shoulder

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Thanks to a couple members of Google’s research team, your phone might soon be able to tell when others are peeping at your screen from over your shoulder. Hee Jung Ryu and Florian Schroff are scheduled to discuss their electronic screen protector project, which uses the selfie camera on a Google Pixel and artificial intelligence to detect if multiple people are looking at the screen.

An unlisted, but public video by Ryu shows the software interrupting a Google messaging app to display a camera view, with the peeking perpetrator identified and given a Snapchat-esque vomit rainbow. Ryu and Schroff claim the system works with different lighting conditions and poses, and can recognize a person’s gaze in 2 milliseconds. Ostensibly, this AI software is able to work so quickly because it’s being run on the phone, rather than sent for processing on the company’s powerful cloud servers.
 
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So now Google is not only spying on everything YOU do, it is watching what others do. Not a lawyer but it seems this could violate electronic monitoring laws in a lot of places. Not to mention usage of people's images without their permission.
 
Not a lawyer either, but if you are out in Public, there are probably laws that state you can't expect privacy in Public. If you are in bathroom stall with door closed, then obviously you expect privacy in regards to others not seeing you, but should expect them to hear you.
 
Well sure if you hold you're phone up like you're taking a selfie while texting and making sure that you're way off center then it works great!

That said, do you really want camera access while you're just texting someone? I mean I know Google is not so secretly recording you all the time anyways, but geeze.
 
To work with pr0n it either needs to be faster, change the screen to espn real quick or flash the neuralyzer.
 
Confirmation they are silently already watching you through the front camera.
 
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