People tend to be divided on the subject of facial recognition.
Some folk find it extremely convenient while others are concerned about the privacy implications.
Now Google Photos is set to bring it’s face-grouping tech over to Europe for the first time. America has already had the feature, which automatically groups photos of familiar people together in albums. You can run a search against their name and come up with all the photos in your library.
To offset the privacy argument, Google only makes face grouping visible to you, the owner of the account. They aren’t shared between users when you invite others to view your photos, for example.
Any users that don’t want it can disable it in the settings menu.
There’s no telling exactly when it’ll be rolled out to European users but will come in a future update to the Google Photos app on iOS and Android. You can find face-grouped photos under the ‘people explore’ tab in the app.
Google says it’ll even work with your pets.