Sunday, June 3, 2007

Now universal automatic face recognition courtsey polar rose

Polarrose is a swedish startup which promises to allow the user to identify a face from all the photographs distributed over the internet. This means that you would have to just give the photograph of the person you want to find and polarrose will give you all the photographs of the person, distributed all over the internet. Imagine what would happen when you give the photograph of your girlfriend and find her making out with your old class mate :D. This has already stirred a huge privacy debate when the The Harvard Law Review, a journal for legal scholarship, recently published a short piece on the privacy implications of such online photo-tagging. See the slashdot thread for more.

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