Facial Recognition software has been around for awhile, and it's quite cool technology! I used it on my 5,000 photo collection and it was amazingly accurate - amazingly accurate. And even when it wasn't accurate - it really was. I had scanned in some old photos of my wife when she was young, and it picked her up, as our 10 year old son - and you could really see the resemblance.
OK - so in a perfect world - that’s great stuff, but what about this? Can you just imagine, somebody you haven’t seen in 10, 15, 20 years, scans in an old photo from college, you know, the one of you and him smoking on a big BONG. So now you’re all grown up, a Doctor, a Lawyer, a politician, or even a Realtor like me - and all of the sudden your tagged? That person doesn’t care, they hit the lottery, they think it’s funny, that old photo of you and him - heck he probably doesn’t even remember your name anymore - but Facebook does??? BAM, your tagged, now it shows up on your homepage, you’re out camping for the weekend, its 3 days before you even know it hit you, Three days now, your colleagues, your family, your patients, your MOTHER, they all see it, some even re-post it, its so funny! - SCARY, Scary, scary – stuff!
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