New York Daily News investigation found Google facial recognition field research project targeted homeless people, cash-strapped college students and subjects with “darker” skin.
Google said an internal investigation prompted by the Daily News’ expose last month uncovered policy violations among the third-party contractors who worked out of its offices but went into the streets each day to solicit face scans with $5 gift cards as incentive.
The violations led the company to halt and overhaul the project, and now future face scans for product development will be limited to Google campuses only, meaning no further public data collection in the field, a source confirmed to the Daily News on Thursday.
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