Google Photos facial recognition leads to Canadian woman sharing R-rated video with her mother

Recently, a Canadian woman shared an album of her son’s pictures on Google Photos with her mother. However, Google Photos ended up adding the woman’s R-rated video to the album and notifying her mother of the same.

Have you ever shared an album on Google Photos with your friends or family? Google Photos enables users to share albums with other users on the platform by selecting the share option. And every time a new photo is added to that album, the user with whom the album is shared also receives it. Sharing albums and videos also saves the effort for a user to separately send photos and videos to multiple users. Google Photos also uses facial recognition to keep track of people in photos. However, sometimes convenience comes at a cost and technology can also show its flipside to users. Recently, a Canadian woman shared an album of her son’s pictures on Google Photos with her mother. However, Google Photos ended up adding the woman’s R-rated video to the album and notifying her mother of the same. The woman, Kara Tonin, shared her ordeal in a hilarious TikTok video saying that she was doing “unspeakable, ungodly things” in that video. So why did Google Photos add an R-rated video in an album of harmless child photos? Tonin said that she was creating an R-rated video “to spice up her relationship” when Google Photos recognised her son’s photo from the fridge in the background and added it to the album Tonin had shared with her mother.