Unlike Facebook’s “Photo Sync” feature, Moments is a separate photo app that doesn’t upload anything until you tell it to. Paul Ducklin wonders how much safer you’ll be from over-sharing your pics…
Tag Archives: facial recognition
Russian billboard advertising contraband hides when it recognises cops
Ban on imported Italian food? No problem! Don Giulio Salumeria got an ad company to rig billboards with facial recognition that spots Russian police uniforms. 
Cane uses facial recognition to steer the blind to friends and family
Students at Birmingham City University in England have created a cane that recognises familiar faces and vibrates to let its blind owner know that they’re near people they know.
Microsoft age-guessing tool goes on a metadata-slurping, viral spree
It will presumably get more accurate with time. But for now, you can see how well it does with your selfies. Or your cat’s selfies. Or a snapshot of that face on your toast that sort of looks like a panda. 
Facebook hit with class action lawsuit over facial recognition data
A new lawsuit alleges Facebook violated users’ privacy rights to build world’s largest privately held database of facial recognition data.
Breakthrough in facial recognition: the ‘Deep Dense Face Detector’
A breakthrough in facial recognition technology means that computers will soon be able to spot faces even if they’re tilted or partially blocked: a boon to cloud storage providers, social networks, surveillance and advertisers alike.
Facebook’s DeepFace facial recognition technology has human-like accuracy
Facebook is going to allow you to blur your face in photos… once it’s identified you.
Facial recognition software leads to arrest after 14-year manhunt
A former US resident from New Mexico was captured in Nepal after 14 years on the run. The fugitive’s passport photo matched up with a newly issued wanted poster. Does the capture of a suspected child abuser justify the use of a technology that hasn’t yet had privacy implications ironed out?
NSA facial recognition program scours web for images to identify suspects
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting millions of images from the web and storing them in a database that can be mined by facial recognition software for identifying surveillance targets, a new report says.