Google To Implement Facial Recogniztion. An Invasion Of Privacy?

[xwinuser]

Many may not know but Facebook tried this same thing and was lambasted until they quickly removed the feature.

 

Google promises an opt-out feature though. What are your thoughts?

 

Google will now scan all your pictures and try to tag you and your friends automatically. An invasion of privacy?

 

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/09/technology/google_find_my_face/

[Fulf]

Honestly, I do think so! While this feature may be cool and sometimes, time saving, I find it useless in general. Invasion of privacy - not so much. But it's not really comfortable either.

[Guest xaav]

The notion of Privacy has many people worried about exposing their personal information--but the concept of "privacy" is simply a false sense of security. By now, almost no one in the world has any privacy, despite other people thinking that that is the case. Let me explain with the example of a credit card company. When people sign up for a credit card, they reveal almost all of their "private" information to the credit card company. In addition, the credit card company has access to all of their purchases, and with that data, the ability to create algorithms that will predict everything about the person that anyone would wish to know. Indeed, with all of that data, the algorithms would likely be quite accurate, and would "invade people's privacy." I mention this as if it is hypothetical, but it actually is happening, right now. Of course, credit card companies have "privacy policies," but who would know if they leaked that information in exchange for money? There are many other ways that information could have got out, and the individual would have no way to prove that the credit card company did it. In addition, the credit card company has much more capital than the individual, and would likely be counter-sued for even trying to claim that the company did wrong. And even if the company didn't do this, they could still be court-ordered to release the information, which would void any contract that they signed with their client. Of course, this is just one out of the many reasons that people no longer really have privacy any more, there are many more ways in which this "privacy invasion" occurs in people's daily lives.

[Brother Hassan]

I think its a time saver =/

[Emperor360]

Time saving indeed! Why must they tag my friends without my consent?

 

Time saving indeed! Why must they tag my friends without my consent?