面部识别(Facial Recognition)功能是处理人和他们的记忆的任何在线平台中最酷的功能之一 - 即以照片和视频的形式。该软件自动在图像上提取人脸，标记，按特定人名搜索照片，并根据人脸自动整理图片。
你们中的许多人可能会联想到Facebook独有的面部识别功能，但就像这个社交媒体平台一样，人脸识别也是(Face Recognition)Google Photos的内置功能。事实上，谷歌(Google)多年来一直在使用人脸识别来识别照片中的人物。
在此基础上，让我们学习如何在Google Photos中启用或禁用面部识别功能。
Google 相册中的(Google Photos)面部识别(Facial Recognition)功能如何工作？
Google 相册(Google Photos)中的面部识别(Facial Recognition)功能使用生物特征和面部地图来识别和匹配出现在不同图像上的人脸细节。此外，它在图像上标记人物。此功能为用户组织图片并为其智能软件识别的每张脸分配名称 - 所有这些都使识别人员变得容易。
面部识别可在Android、iPhone 和Google 照片(Google Photos)的网络版中使用。
此功能的“不太好”的一面
人脸识别功能提出了几个复杂且令人担忧的问题，迫使我们质疑并考虑禁用它。最有动力的两个原因是：
用户可能不想在照片中被标记，但软件不会知道这一点。此外，我们不知道这些面部印象将如何与第三方一起使用。最重要的是，我们不知道谷歌(Google)打算如何利用这种能力在这个高度连接的世界中几乎任何地方识别我们。
启用或禁用Google 相册面部识别(Google Photos Facial Recognition)
在Google 照片(Google Photos)中启用或禁用面部识别功能完全由您选择。此外，无论是内置功能 - 默认情况下它可能不会打开。如果您希望启用它，请按照以下步骤操作。
1] 转到您的网络浏览器并打开Google Photos。
2]现在在主页上，点击“转到谷歌照片(Go to Google Photos)”
3]在左上角，单击看起来像一个小齿轮图标的“设置”选项。(Settings’)
4] 在“设置”(Settings’)页面上，向下滚动并查找“分组相似面孔(Group Similar Faces)”选项，然后单击右侧出现的向下箭头。
5]切换“面部分组”(Face Grouping’)选项以打开面部识别功能。
要禁用面部识别功能，请关闭“面部分组(Face Grouping)”选项。
我们不能禁止这些科技巨头扫描我们与他们分享的照片，但我们可以使用他们的预建功能来限制我们的数据被收集和使用的方式。
我们希望本指南可以帮助您管理面部识别功能。
如果您知道有关Google 照片(Google Photos)的任何类似技巧可以帮助我们以更好的方式保护我们的数据，请在下面的评论部分与我们分享。
How to disable or enable Google Photos Facial Recognition
The Facial Recognition feature is one of the coolest features of any online platform that deals with people and their memories – i.e. in the form of photos and videos. This software automatically picks up people’s faces on the images, tag them, searches for photos by specific people’s name, and automatically organizes pictures based on people’s faces.
Many of you may associate the facial recognition feature unique to Facebook, but like this social media platform Face Recognition is also an in-built feature for Google Photos. In fact, Google has been using face recognition to identify people in photos for years now.
Building on this, let us learn how to enable or disable the facial recognition feature in Google Photos.
How does Facial Recognition feature in Google Photos work?
The Facial Recognition feature in Google Photos uses biometrics and a map facial to recognize and match details of a human face appearing on different images. Further, it tags people on the images. This feature organizes the pictures for the users and assigns names to each face as recognized by its intelligent software – All this makes identifying people easy.
Facial recognition is available in Android, iPhone, and the web version of Google Photos.
The ‘not-so-good’ side of this feature
The face recognition feature presents several complex and hypothetically worrisome problems that force us to question and consider disabling it. Two of the most motivating reasons are:
- Unintentional penalties of being recognized in images
- How this technology could be used in the future?
A user may not want to be tagged in photos, but the software would not know that. Also, we have no idea how these facial impressions would be used with third parties. And the most significant one, we don’t know how Google intends to capitalize on this ability to identify us almost anywhere in this highly connected world.
Enable or Disable Google Photos Facial Recognition
The choice of enabling or disabling the facial recognition feature in Google Photos is completely yours. Also, irrespective of being a built-in feature – it may not be turned on by default. If you wish to enable it follow the below steps.
1] Go to your web browser and open Google Photos.
2] Now on the main page, click on ‘Go to Google Photos’
3] On the top left side, click the ‘Settings’ option that looks like a little gear icon.
4] When on the ‘Settings’ page, scroll down and look for the option ‘Group Similar Faces’ and click the down arrow appearing on the right side.
5] Toggle on the ‘Face Grouping’ option to turn the facial recognition feature on.
To disable the facial recognition feature, toggle off the ‘Face Grouping’ option.
We cannot prohibit these tech giants from scanning the photos we share with them, but we can use their pre-built features to limit how our data is collected and used.
We hope this guide helped you manage the facial recognition feature.
If you know any similar tricks around Google Photos that can help us protect our data in a better way, then do share it with us in the comments section below.
