Google Discussing Facial Recognition Technology

[JMcEntegart]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said if the company were ever to implement facial recognition technology, they would have to be extremely careful about it.

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[eddieroolz]

Not sure about this whole face recognition thing; I'd prefer fingerprinting as there's less chance of false positive with that.

 

[urlsen]

incorporated with googlemaps...cctv and big brother..we got the beginning of skynet

 

[JohnnyLucky]

There is not such thing as privacy on the web.

 

[micr0be]

i think we're looking at the start of a minority report security system.

 

[Guest]

the possibility is quite scary if you think about it, take a picture of a person, run it through the facial recognition search engine, up pops a name, facebook, e-mail....... the misuse for such technology is frightening and dangerous

 

[drutort]

i guess this kind of tech would be a dream come true for the spammers/ads and id theft... this makes all of there jobs much easier... I would object to such tech without proper privacy restrictions on a global level, of course that might minimize the benefit of such tech to begin with 😛 but that is a price to pay for not letting such tech get into the wrong hands...

 

[climber]

It also allows the government or corporations to see all of your association with people, since if you're in a photo in a certain place in the world and time via geotagging or just recognizing buildings or places and the people who are also in the photo, anyone else in the photo can also be searched against and all their activities can be cross referenced against yours, so an overall psycho-sociological profile be created for each of us. This may be great for google's marketing department but it's also great for those who want to socially engineer our society into a more conservative fundamentalist agenda. J. Edgar Hoover would have loved this technology.

 

[dxwarlock]

Everyone grab your tinfoil hat!
let the floods of google hate posts begin...

google could say they was adding extra login security in the most mundane way..and people would find a way to say its google trying to take over the world.

google is the new microsoft of the 2010 decade. everyone jumping on the "down with the big guy" bus.

 

[Blessedman]

Actually it might be the start of preventive measures for such things as ID theft. This might actually be a good thing, walk into a bank they automatically identify you and do your thing. ATM's equipped with such technology along with your PIN would make it impossible for people to steal your cash with your PIN and card. It wouldn't take long before everyone in the world would be in one photo or another somewhere and those little red light camera's could catch criminals in a heart beat. Any place gets robbed, people just let them go (no need to try and stop them) and within a few blocks the cops know where they are and what they are traveling in. The idea is a little scary, yes...

 

[septentriones]

This probably won't work across the entie web but I can see facial recognition and fingerprint scans helping to make some sites safer from identity theft. If anything, less technology savvy people will be safer on the web if their email and finances are secured by their unique appearances. I Just hope that Google and other sites will be able to pull this off in a way that doesn't allow them to spy on individuals.

 

[mikie tim t]

The problem with all digital authentication techniques is that they all have to be transmitted and stored in some fashion. Even if encrypted, if someone of malicious intent used the hash, they are, in essence, the authenticated user. If this is is hijacked, how can you get a different authentication token if it is made up of a physical, unchangeable trait? I would think that a combination of password and RSA key like bankers use is just about as secure as we're going to be able to get.

 

[Grizely1]

"This may be great for google's marketing department but it's also great for those who want to socially engineer our society into a more conservative fundamentalist agenda. J. Edgar Hoover would have loved this technology."

You've got to be kidding. The current social structure has been completely engineered as it stands, this technology could possibly be used even further. Take a look at which president the Google CEO is most buddybuddy with...? Hmm I wonder.

 

[zachary k]

would be good for security. knowing google, they will find some creative way to control your computer or smartphone or something. speech to text with custom emoticons? yea, i am all for this. unfortunately people are way too paranoid about great, new technology.

 

[sidran32]

Online, I don't know if I'd want that (though I can see the benefits). I just helped a friend purchase a new laptop, though, and it has a built-in webcam with software that uses facial recognition to automatically log him into the computer. All I could say when we discovered this was "holy crap that's freaking cool!" Because it is.

 

[2inthepink1inthestink]

I love everything google has released, and I love how it's all free. I also love how I can choose to use it or just walk away.

 

[tolham]

they really shouldn't do any facial recognition. that feels way too 1984.

 

[Dirtman73]

[citation][nom]2inthepink1inthestink[/nom]I love everything google has released, and I love how it's all free. I also love how I can choose to use it or just walk away.[/citation]

Give Google another five years, and you won't have a choice.

 

[WyomingKnott]

They could apply it to the Street View project. Imagine being able to search for every photo showing (insert person you want to stalk here) in locations that he/she frequents.
Just because it's inevitable, doesn't mean that it's a good idea.