Google’s AI knows when a stranger is looking at your phone

Ever get the feeling someone is looking over your shoulder at your phone? Well, you might not have to worry about that in the future: Google’s researchers have developed an AI tool that can spot when someone is sneaking a peek at your screen.

The software — which was first spotted by Quartz — is called an “e-screen protector,” and is currently just in the research stage. (We don’t know if Google has plans to add it to future versions of Android, but we’ve reached out to check.) It’s quite simple: it uses your front-facing camera in combination with some face- and gaze-detection algorithms to identify anyone looking at your display.

In the demo video, above, you can see it reacting almost instantaneously to a suspicious looky-loos,…

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