Are there any examples so far around gross mis-use of this data? Building a large list of potential suspects and/or getting some direction for further study based on a face match sounds very useful, but sending a swat team to someone's house and ruining their lives based on a terrible match on a crappy picture is a whole other side of the scale.
I understand why a company collecting this information is annoying / frustrating, but it was also inevitable, was it not? EDIT: Example, LinkedIn just got told by a court that they must allow crawling. A quick crawl of profiles and photos would yield a beginning of one of these types of databases, etc - one it's on the web, you have to assume it can be used for facial recognition.
Either way I am happy that people are recognizing the import of what they post online - even if it's just a picture.
I understand why a company collecting this information is annoying / frustrating, but it was also inevitable, was it not? EDIT: Example, LinkedIn just got told by a court that they must allow crawling. A quick crawl of profiles and photos would yield a beginning of one of these types of databases, etc - one it's on the web, you have to assume it can be used for facial recognition.
Either way I am happy that people are recognizing the import of what they post online - even if it's just a picture.