Google's Picasa : Spooky Facial Recognition
Google recently introduced new Picasa web album functionality that scans your images and finds face patterns, allowing you to tag them by person name. I tried it today and it is indeed effective, with spooky overtones.
The scary part isn't Google, whose service is option, but the potential for abuse of this technology for surveillance, government sanctioned or otherwise.
Look at the job it did finding all the facial variants of my daughter Avery. I noticed it was also very good at finding the facial similarities between the Grant or the Hammerslag side of my family - even linking facial patterns on that side of the family between adults and their related preschool pictures.
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