[geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

[Mark]

On 31 May 2007, at 05:36, Brian Dunbar wrote:

> Mark wrote:
>> I just found an interesting note over at ARSTechnica. Apparently if
>> you add '&imgtype=face' to the end of any Google Images search it
>> will actually return only pictures with faces in. Is that scary or is
>> it just me?
>>
>
> Forgive me but I worked all day then came home and put in five  
> hours of
> moving rock around the yard - 4 tons (est) of limestone rubble is  
> now in
> orderly rows and borders all over the place.  But I'm a little out of
> it.  So ..
>
> Why is it scary?

You don't even find it remotely worrying that google have started  
tracking faces? What if they refine it to pick out a persons face  
from Google images eh?

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