Google reportedly told contractors to lie while collecting face scans for the Pixel 4

One of the major upgrades Google has revealed it will bring to its Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones this month is a face unlock feature that utilizes the company's motion-sensing radar, Soli, to detect your face and open the phone up almost instantaneously as you go to pick it up. In order to perfect this feature, Google admitted that it was conducting "field research," which translated to offering people $5 gift cards to have their faces scanned.

This was troubling on its own, but it turns out that $5 gift cards may have just been the tip of the iceberg when it came to the tactics the contractors used to get the data Google needed. New York Daily News reports that several people who worked on the project say they were asked to use "questionable and misleading methods" to obtain the scans they needed, and a series of interviews shows just how desperate Google was for data.

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Google reportedly told contractors to lie while collecting face scans for the Pixel 4 originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 14:48:16 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.