Google wants to store a selfie video of your face

The report reviews Google’s rollout of a “selfie video” account-recovery option, outlines security and privacy concerns (including false positives/negatives in facial recognition, deepfake risks, and the creation of a repository of sensitive biometric data), and advises users not to enable the feature while recommending safer alternatives such as password managers, hardware security keys/passkeys, offline backup codes, and reviewing recovery contacts.