Smile, peruser of the internet! Your facial features are being codified by algorithms.
Starting this week, Google has begun asking users to take a video selfie to sign into their accounts, Search Engine Watch found. The feature remains optional, but it represents an eerie step towards making facial recognition a standard way to navigate the web, which the search engine giant is now heavily promoting.
Google first announced the feature in July, framing it as an optional way of getting into your account if you’re locked out or don’t have access to your usual devices.
To set it up, you record a short video of your face while moving your head to capture different angles. Then, if “you’re having trouble signing in later on,” Google said in the announcement, “you just take another selfie to get back into your account.”
