Did you know that your friend’s Google Nest camera doorbell might be storing your facial data?

Google Nest’s “familiar face detection” feature allows people to save your name with your picture so that their camera can recognize you whenever you come over, without your knowledge or consent. Anyone who walks by a Google doorbell can be tagged—which means your face may very well be stored in a random neighbor’s “familiar face detection” as a contact. On top of enabling invasive spying on neighbors, this tech puts your unchangeable biometric data at risk of abuse and theft in mass databases––databases you have no idea you’ve been added to in the first place.

Let’s be clear: our years of mobilizing against surveillance doorbells is the reason why other popular doorbell camera companies have held off on rolling out facial recognition, even after patenting the tech. Google’s dangerous move to introduce this new surveillance feature is a slap in the face to privacy advocates and privacy-minded customers. Tell Google you refuse to add your friends and family to a facial recognition database, and the company must discontinue this feature immediately.