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longDesc="Sensitive Information Policy" height=110>Google Goggles could
violate your privacy
without your knowing it. Goggles lets you send photos of a business card, book
cover or even bar code from your Android-based smartphone to Google for quick
identification and data manipulation. Now if that software is extended to
include photos your personal privacy could be impacted.


The way it works is that you snap a photo by centering your
image in the Goggles screen and pressing a small camera icon at the bottom of
the screen. Goggles then scans the image, analyzes it and identifies it. If the
image is of a business card, Goggles separates the information into fields and
lets you put it into your Google Contacts database. If it’s a book, the app
offers to let you purchase or research it. If it’s a store or a landmark,
Goggles fetches Google search info about the location. (Objects such as cars,
animals or people aren’t, according to the instructions, really identifiable
yet.)


Imagine pointing your smartphone at anything, clicking a button
and having all the information about that object immediate appear.

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