“Regulators have told us we have to offer an opt-in choice to people to do this.
We don’t have an opt-in mechanism so it is turned off until we develop one,” he said, adding that there’s no fixed timetable for developing it. It’s worth mentioning that the Photos app – which was launched by Google at this year’s I/O conference – also uses facial-recognition technology, but the features that make of the tech are only available in the US, although the app is available worldwide.
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