Comments on: New API Takes Facial Recognition From Facebook and Puts It Everywhere

By: Heathrow Airport To Adopt Face Scanners To Screen Passengers | Singularity Hub

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:10:25 +0000

[...] to bolster airport security across the world, make policing easier, billboards more effective, and stalking on Facebook more efficient. Privacy issues are already being raised by groups like the ACLU. But until face [...]

By: If You’re Happy and You Know It—FACEBOOK WILL DETECT IT | Singularity Hub

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:17:17 +0000

[...] company ABC News interviews is Face.com, who we discussed a little over a year ago with the launch of their API. According to a recent newsletter, in the past twelve months their API has gone from a few dozen [...]

By: Korious

Korious — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:13:41 +0000

This is disturbing.I guess I will have to start wearing makeup that distorts my features now and decline having my picture taken for anything.Thanks marketing jerks for making everything decent about the internet obsolete.Let the deleting begin.

By: “Minority Report” Scanners Are Coming: Company Receives $15 Million to Develop Long-Range Facial Recognition Technology | BespokeTC Blog

Mon, 23 May 2011 20:52:57 +0000

[...] New API Takes Facial Recognition From Facebook and Puts It Everywhere [...]

By: Joe Nickence

Joe Nickence — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:20:35 +0000

I should say that I find this disturbing. But I’ve already allowed Facebook to use my image when making comments on different websites. And Photo Tagger on Facebook is still hit and miss. But it is getting faster. It all boils down to if you’ve allowed Facebook to use tags on your images, you’re fair game. If you’re concerned about privacy, you need to go through everywhere you have pictures on the net, and do a scouring.

By: Exclusive: An AI Physician On Every Smartphone? An Xprize Challenge | Singularity Hub

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:34:30 +0000

[...] at their disposal. Combine this with recent advances in narrow AI, such as voice recognition and image comparison capability, and clearly the pieces are already in [...]