{"id":9937,"date":"2017-12-01T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=9937"},"modified":"2019-11-15T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:23:35","slug":"google-vs-peeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/google-vs-peeping\/9937\/","title":{"rendered":"Google E-Screen Protector prevents peeping \u2014 or does it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does over-the-shoulder peeping annoy you? Same for us, and many others, too. In response, Google recently showed off a prototype app<\/a> for Android that could help solve the problem of wandering eyes. How does the technology work \u2014 and are there any pitfalls?<\/p>\n

To repeat: This is a prototype, so details are few and far between. We know that the new technology is called E-Screen Protector, and it uses a front-facing smartphone camera and machine learning to identify human eyes. If more than two eyes are detected in the camera\u2019s field of view, that means you\u2019ve got company.<\/p>\n

According to the developers, the app needs an average of just 130 milliseconds to spot a smartphone voyeur. As soon as it does, the image from the front camera is displayed on screen with the onlooker\u2019s face inside a red frame accompanied by the words \u201cA STRANGER IS LOOKING ALERT!!!\u201d Here\u2019s how the prototype works:<\/p>\n