[geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Joost van de Griek wrote:
>> On 6/2/07 2:48 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> The effort to implement this in real-time (the only way this is even remotely
>>> interesting) is mind-boggling complex. It would require an infinite number of
>>> cameras, an inventory of all the "interesting" faces, and a large enough data
>>> processing complex to filter all the interesting faces out of the feeds from
>>> that infinite number of cameras...
>> Matter of time. In the UK, there is now one "security" camera per fifteen
>> citizens, if I'm remembering the numbers correctly. That's some scary
>> statistic.
> 
> Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Indeed.  There's a lot of room for abuse, there.

Peace...  Sridhar