Google Is Piloting Facial Recognition for Some Employees and Won’t Let Employees Opt Out

Google is testing facial recognition on one of its campuses, and refusing to be subjected to this is not an option for the giant's employees.

In other words, opt-out is not a feature of the surveillance scheme - the only possibility available to employees is to fill out a form and declare they don't want images recorded by security cameras, taken from their company IDs, stored.

Reports are saying that this is happening in Kirkland, a suburb of Seattle, where facial recognition tech is used to identify employees using images on their ID badges, in order to keep those unauthorized from entering the premises.

And while in the testing phase badges are being used, that won't be the case in the future, Google representatives have said, but reports quoting them do not clarify what type of ID - or images - might be used instead.

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