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Google publishes facial recognition patent, could use social network photos
Topic Started: Feb 26 2011, 02:07 AM (713 Views)
Mastil
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If you are out in public, you are fair game, but how would you like it if a stranger took your picture and then ran a search to find out your name, online aliases and all the information about you via that image? We are very nearly there with automatic face-recognition technology and social media aggregation. Although several companies are exploring that realm, Google recently published a patent in Europe to use facial recognition and social networking combined to give visual search results.


http://blogs.computerworld.com/17871/google_face_search_to_use_social_network_photos

could be bad, stalkers n criminals gaining searches
verdict?
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Wesdude
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It could be handy, in the right hands as far as tracking down people with warrants and such. It would be a police officer's dream to be able to take a photo and use all those resources to identify a criminal in a crowd. :D
But it could also be a scary thing, it pretty much voids all your expectations of anonymity, you could get spotted anywhere, even if you weren't the main focus of the photo. They could view most of your friends, phone numbers, and anything else you share over these networks. Google's really making a stalkers job way too easy; one random photo and they could find anything. It's new technology like this that make you really wonder why anyone would want to share personal details over these social networks. :glare:

Why can't they just use things like these to actually make money. Say they sold it as a new police database/tool, they'd surely make more money than merely making it available to any random that can access Google. Not to mention it would benefit society more in my opinion. :blink:
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Ben
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Fortunately my multitudes of stalkers will only be able to use that to find me in summer (or the very short season here in Canada that we call summer).
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Kezzie
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We only need sock and sandal recognition for you Ben
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Ben
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Kezzie
Feb 26 2011, 06:58 PM
We only need sock and sandal recognition for you Ben
Yes, but I wear socks and sandals only when there's no snow on the ground. I'm not crazy. So a random stalker on the street would have to wait for me to start wearing them before he or she could ID me. Facial recognition will not suffice. :D
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