Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You

[J.A. Terranson]

<SNIP>

> Google could have put face recognition into the Goggles application; indeed,
> many users have asked for it. But Google decided against it because
> smartphones can be used to take pictures of individuals without their
> knowledge, and a face match could retrieve all kinds of personal information
> b name, occupation, address, workplace.
> 
> b
It was just too sensitive, and we didnbt want to go there,b
 said Eric E.
> Schmidt, the chief executive of Google. b
You want to avoid enabling stalker
> behavior.b


Coming from Google, "not wanting to enable stalker behaviour" is a rich 
irony indeed. The world's largest and most sophisticated stalker "has 
concerns"...  Yeah.


//Alif

-- 
"Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public
plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to
the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always
be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by
predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."

Joseph Pulitzer, 1907 Speech