Friday, May 21, 2010

Google reconsiders introducing facial recognition technology



Recently Google announced their work in the field of facial recognition. This is an interesting field of research and the implications are amazing, but the privacy issues are concerning users world wide.
The company is reviewing its products and the merit of introducing the controversial technology in light of recent complaints.

It is under investigation in several countries after admitting that its Street View mapping cars had inadvertently collected browsing information sent over wireless networks, although it says that none of this data can be traced to individuals.

Read the entire article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7744031/Google-reconsiders-introducing-facial-recognition-technology.html

More face recognition info: http://face.com/

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