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Monday, August 23, 2010

The Facial Recognition Software That Will Put a Name to Every Photograph in the Internet


A software company is developing revolutionary software which provides the ability to identify people from photographs posted on the internet.

Face.com has produced technology that can identify individuals on social networking sites and online galleries by comparing their image against a known picture of them.

It means detailed profiles of individuals can be built up purely from online photographs and critics have said it could lead to exploitation by employers.'

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1 comment:

  1. Just another reason why I don't have any pictures of myself online any longer, aside from the fact that people like to steal pictures and claim they are the individual in the picture. Something I have seen often enough on the Internet.

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