Google is has been working on “Google’s facial recognition feature”, a new security feature that can protect you against strangers stealing glances at your phone over your shoulder.

Google scientists has demonstrate a new feature that could protect and alert you against snoopers looking at your phone over your shoulder likely in public places.



Google’s facial recognition feature or better referred to as “Electronic Screen Protector,” uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition to alert you when someone else is looking at your screen which was developed by Google researchers Hee Jung Ryu and Florian Schroff. The new feature, which is still being worked on, was demonstrated in a YouTube video post in September.

This tool is designed to protect you from corporate spies or nosey strangers stealing sensitive data from your smartphone screen especially in crowded places. The feature appears to use the phone’s front-facing camera and facial recognition feature to detect if someone else is looking at your phone. It then tells you that someone might be snooping.

When a stranger’s gaze is detected as the phone’s owner types a text message, the screen automatically switches to the front camera and uses a giant rainbow to point to the stranger’s face. When the stranger looks away, the screen turns back to the text messaging app.

With this, Google’s facial recognition feature makes it ideal for Android phone users and helps reduce data theft rate among phone users.

In our increasingly mobile lifestyles, everyone from CEOs to interns find themselves working on the go from their phones. People may be checking email or other sensitive corporate information in public. And this feature could help protect that data from being glanced at by the wrong sets of eyes.

The researchers plan to present this technology innovation at the 2017 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference in Long Beach, California, in December. Google hasn’t announced plans integrate the functionality in its software. The company wasn’t available for comment as at the time of getting this report.

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