Google has recently released that they are making an app that would identify peoples faces. You would take a picture of someone and with their approval Google would find a profile complete with pics, email info and telephone info. Although this is an interesting concept there are still a lot of issues they will work out before they put this app on the market. There are a lot of privacy issues that need to be addressed before this app will exist.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/31/google.face/index.html
This app would be useful in finding old friends if it could detect and match faces of the same person from years ago. However, there are disadvantages too. This could allow stalkers to find out information about someone and that is disturbing.
ReplyDelete