Google’s Nest Hub Max is always watching. Is it a time saving assistant or another assault on our privacy? Photo: Geoffrey Fowler/Washington Post
Is the Google Nest Hub Max a clever, convenient assistant or a breach of your privacy?
- Google has updated its AI smart speaker, but its new face-tracking technology will be seen by many as too intrusive
- Its wide-angle lens scans the room for your face and tracks your hand movements; living with it embodied the cognitive dissonance of being a gadget guy in 2019
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Google
Google’s Nest Hub Max is always watching. Is it a time saving assistant or another assault on our privacy? Photo: Geoffrey Fowler/Washington Post
Cameras that use facial recognition technology are becoming more common around the world, but are they a breach of our civil rights? Photo: Alamy
Big Brother or necessary surveillance – does facial recognition tech infringe on our privacy and civil rights?
- Police, governments and even shops around the world are keeping tabs on people through AI-assisted facial recognition systems
- In the United States the FBI has 30 million citizens on its facial recognition database, while China’s is said to contain almost the whole population
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Artificial intelligence
Cameras that use facial recognition technology are becoming more common around the world, but are they a breach of our civil rights? Photo: Alamy