[conmarap]

There's a number of things that are alarming me about this, but I'll focus on one thing: the privacy implications. Not just for the user, but for those who will appear in the pictures that Google will be - for sure - ingesting for the purpose of crowdsourcing street view imagery. Suddenly we have this platform that will be capturing millions of faces and potentially know where people have been even if they don't use the app.

Not to mention that this type of app is treating people as incapable of following directions and it opens up the possibility of new avenues of advertising. Google already keeps an archive of your whereabouts and can even tell when you get in and out of a car. Just imagine wielding your phone around and getting "special offers" for that store you go by but never walk into.

[izacus]

> There's a number of things that are alarming me about this, but I'll focus on one thing: the privacy implications. Not just for the user, but for those who will appear in the pictures that Google will be - for sure - ingesting for the purpose of crowdsourcing street view imagery. Suddenly we have this platform that will be capturing millions of faces and potentially know where people have been even if they don't use the app.

Umm, the camera stream of AR isn't transmitted from your phone. The 3D objects are rendered on top of detected features on device.

[Nux]

How do you know? And even if it doesn't for starters, there's no telling it'll stay that way.

Very legitimate concern.

[IanCal]

> Not to mention that this type of app is treating people as incapable of following directions

Seems like a legit solution to the common problem of people standing around trying to work out which direction they're actually pointing.

[KaiserPro]

Lets split this into three:

1)ingesting for the purpose of crowdsourcing street view imagery

If they are doing that(Which I strongly suggest they are not, well at least not yet), then having multiple views allows google to remove things that move (people/cars)

2) Depending on how they do this, if its using "visual landmarks" then people are a massive pain. They move, and cause all sorts of problems when doing positioning. So they'll need to be removed for the system to work properly.

3) The actual scary part is not the faces, persay. Its the fact that any picture where google has streetview is now able to be precisely located, regardless of who, when or how it was taken.