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I updated my Google Photos app and was amazed to see that it could search all of my photos by clicking on an icon of a person's face. It even found faces of people in multiple photos whom I don't know. I couldn't find any mis-labeled photos. When I showed this to a family member, they were not amazed but creeped out.

If there were a way to hook this up with my Nest Cam, I would be speechless.

The article focuses on its impact to people of color. Will this specific issue go away if accuracy becomes near perfect? We'll still have to deal with its impact on everyone - and that could invite broader regulation.

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  my Nest Cam

People buying literal spyware to spy on themselves is definitely part of the problem.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2476599/cybercrime-hack...

EDIT: I knew this would get downvotes from a crowd that simultaneously abhors surveillance yet trumpets spyware like Nest as innovative. Cognitive dissonance is strong here.

Nothing to do with cognitive dissonance. Some of us just aren't impressed by "hacks" that require the "hacker" to gain physical access to your home and the hardware.

> "Once an attacker has physical access"

Also, strangely the article isn't about the the Nest Cam, so it's really just the billionth in a series of articles that reinforce that if an attacker has physical access you're screwed.

Does Nest ping to any companies servers?

> I knew this would get downvotes from a crowd that simultaneously abhors surveillance yet trumpets spyware like Nest as innovative. Cognitive dissonance is strong here.

Shouldn't be a big surprise from the same crowd that thinks "gut bacteria" trumps CICO, never mind that gut biome being different in overweight/obese versus healthy weight is probably more an effect than a cause.

That's a whole nother topic. CICO isn't as important as where you get those calories from. If a majority are from sugar, you are getting way too much insulin which then creates fat in the body. If you get fibrous and fatty calories, it takes more energy to break them down and store them thus leading to healthier fat/muscle.

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