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    Amateur Facial Recognition Creeps Closer

    Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

    The ability for everyday users of search engines to query particular faces is creeping closer. Google OS reports that Google has (kind of quietly) added a feature to their Image Search service to restrict the results to people’s faces. For example, a basic search for “Zimmer” in Image Search provides varied results, ranging from the […]

    Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0: Unintended Consequences and the Rise of “Netaveillance”

    Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

    [This thought piece appears on the On The Identity Trail project’s blog, blog*on*nymity. Thanks to the amazing folks there for the (second) invitation to contribute to the project. -mz]
    This post is an attempt to collect and organize some thoughts on how the rise of so-called Web 2.0 technologies bear on privacy and surveillance studies. After […]

    Polar Rose: More Amateur Facial Recognition

    Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

    Another facial recognition search engine product has launched - Polar Rose. This New Scientist Tech article notes some of the privacy concerns:
    Polar Rose and future developments that make facial recognition available to the masses risk encroaching on people’s privacy, warns Yaman Akdeniz, director of the UK non-profit group Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties.
    “Although this sounds like a […]

    On Google, User Images and Identifiability

    Thursday, August 17th, 2006

    Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal has an extensive look at how Google might leverage their acquisition of Neven Vision to help identify and inter-connect users’ various web products (blogs, forums, social networking sites, etc) that might not otherwise be shared under a common login. The conclusion:
    …if social networking is the future of online communication […]

    Google to do Image & Face Recognition

    Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

    In a quick follow-up to this speculation about Google using Gmail photos to build a facial recognition database, Google just announced they acquired Neven Vision, a company that develops technology to detect and recognize objects and persons in images. While Google is currently spinning this as a new way to help organize your photos (the […]

    Gmail Pictures Used For Face Recognition?

    Monday, August 14th, 2006

    The Google Operating System blog reports that when uploading pictures for your contacts, Gmail will ask you to crop the picture, to separate the face of the person. The result? Google has a database of multiple images for a lot of people, along with their names, e-mail addresses, street addresses, phone numbers, and whatever else […]


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