Google making app that would identify people's faces - CNN.com

Google's Hartmut Neven, pictured here, says the company is working on a facial-recognition app.

Santa Monica, California (CNN) -- Google plans to introduce a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director for the project said this week.

In order to be identified by the software, people would have to check a box agreeing to give Google permission to access their pictures and profile information, said Hartmut Neven, the Google engineering director for image-recognition development.

Profiles might include a name, phone number and e-mail address.

"We recognize that Google has to be extra careful when it comes to these [privacy] issues," Neven told CNN in an exclusive interview. Before the app launches, Google plans to have acceptable privacy models in place, he said. [...]

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