# Google's selfie video sign-in puts your face on its servers

DevFeed: [Google's selfie video sign-in puts your face on its servers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/google-s-selfie-video-sign-in-puts-your-face-on-its-servers-88922.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://proton.me/blog/google-selfie-video>)

Author: Elena Constantinescu

Published: 2026-10-16T20:38:57Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The Proton Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-proton-blog.md>)

Topics: [Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security-privacy-and-abuse-prevention.md>), [Single sign-on (SSO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sso.md>)

Tags: [biometrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/biometrics.md>), [breach](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/breach.md>), [device](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/device.md>), [encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/encryption.md>), [end-to-end-encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/end-to-end-encryption.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>)

## AI overview

Google's selfie video sign-in stores a reference recording on its servers for account recovery. The article examines the privacy risks of that storage, including possible AI training, government access and age estimation, and contrasts it with passkeys and local device checks.

## Source excerpt

Google lets you sign in with a selfie video it stores on its servers. Here's what it means for AI training, government access and age checks.