If you think Facebook has been stirring up enough trouble lately, wait until you see what's in store for us next.
What better place for a facial recognition application than the Facebook?
As unbelievable as it sounds, Face.com has introduced a new application on Facebook called Photo Finder. Photo Finder takes your untagged photos on Facebook and automatically tags them for you - with surprising accuracy. It's capable of finding that crazy couple you met in the bar last week as well as finding pictures of you that you never knew existed on Facebook. And it does all of this with a picture of your face.
Creepy? Potentially. However, Face.com has its bases covered. The application poses no threat to you unless you allow it to access your account. If the idea of pictures of you on your 21st resurfacing doesn't appeal to you, don't add the application and no one will ever know.
Photo Finder also recreates your Facebook privacy settings within the application so that if you want everyone to see your pictures, they can. And if you want no one to see them, you can do that, too.
Having just re-read Fahrenheit 451 (my favorite book of all time), I have to say that we need to be cautious and aware of the things going on around us. I fully support technology and its uses today, even Face.com's new application thanks to the care they've taken to protect users' privacy. However, I also believe that there are limits to the use of technology in our lives and we should be vigilant in keeping technology in check.
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I'm not so sure I want something like Face.com finding me all over facebook... and what's to stop the hacker-monkeys from using it to find people that don't even have the program added? And what if people tag a photo of them, that also happens to include me doing something I may not want people to see, and then a friend that I don't want to see what I don't want them to see, sees it in their other friend's tagged photo?!?
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