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Interesting looking at Google's Vision API overview, where they explicitly state that facial recognition is not available.

The technology to do this clearly exists, but I gather they are concerned about the potential for abuse. Which makes sense. You could build some very creepy apps with this.



I won't directly speculate but I doubt the Face Detection functionality is absent due to some ethical quandary.


Why do you say that? http://megaface.cs.washington.edu/results/ shows that Google has one of the best Face Detection models.


Sounds like a competitive advantage to me.




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