Reports have it that Google is developing a new privacy feature for Android devices, whereby the devices will be able to allow users to hide photos with specific faces. This is going to enhance a user’s control over the photo libraries at large and privacy from whom it should be locked out of in updates soon to come.
Currently, Android users rely on various third-party apps to manage and hide sensitive photos. With this potential native feature, though, the management of personal photos could become much easier and tightly integrated with the operating system itself. It’s reportedly an expansion of what Google Photos already does—using its face recognition to organize and tag photos.
Hide Photos on Android
The new feature most probably uses sophisticated machine learning algorithms that can detect faces in your photos, letting users select from among them those Faces they want to hide from view. Now, with that selection made, photos will be hidden away from the main gallery and perhaps brought under some password-protected folder for complete peace of mind.
This move falls in line with the company’s continuous efforts to enhance user privacy and security. By performing a feature integration at this level in Android, Google will then be better positioned to provide users who value their privacy highly and want more granular control over their personal media with something much more solid.
Features like this will certainly serve as a very large sales point for Android devices against growing digital privacy concerns in a digital age, especially for users who are extremely careful with their digital footprints. Assuming implementation goes through, this feature will pave the way for a new level of photo management on mobile devices.
Watch out for confirmation from Google regarding this update; it truly has the potential to improve Android’s photo privacy management.
