Question

Cite an example on how organizations like Google, Facebook, Youtube etc collect data for image identification and  mature content.

Please explain in details thanks!

Answer 1

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s important information such a way that it can be accessed for useful purposes. Google make use of these channels to gather image:

• Google Web browser Search
• Clicks on search results
• Web crawling
• Website analytics
• Ad serving
• Electronic-mail
• G Suite
• Google Public DNS
• Google Chrome
• Google Assistant and Google Home

In a recent development of Google’s announcement in smart display, a disputable feature which watches the users continuously, this feature is known as Face Match brought by Google Nest Hub Max which employs smart display front-facing camera for providing enhanced security during real-time video calls. This Face Match collects photos, texts as well as calendar details, the reason for gathering these data so that it provide faster recognition. However this image collection may sound normal for consumers but in the aspect of privacy, Google collects, stores, analyses these gathered image and confidential information present in the images are prone to certain hacking. The Google Nest Hub Max assists several user profiles through fingerprint log-in. Google's Face Match enables to create face framework and it's faster than manual log-in. Google provided a statement in defence to this controversial feature, stating that face image data are stored as well as processed on Nest Hub Max and sometimes retrieves facial data image to aggrandise product experience. Google stated that    facial image data stored in cloud storage will be deleted after processing. Other tech companies consists of privacy policies to certain degree, however, if an user allows to collect and process then it will be stored in cloud in one capacity or another.