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Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand (docs.cloud.google.com)
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[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

we will learn that they have been using it to gather face recognition data

They already have all that with the trillions and trillions of photos people willingly backed up with Google photos.