Face recognition

I am not the most up-to-date person with new technologies. The other day, while organising some pictures using Google's Picasa, I found one incredible/scary face recognition feature.

Basically, the software will scan all your pictures, show you some faces from your pictures and ask you who is who, from then on, it will start to pick up who is who!

Picasa can even find similar faces, and ask you for confirmation

Same for Apple iPhoto 09's Faces feature

Of course, our good friend, Facebook tagging

The technology you used to see in TV series is now available for personal use. My guess is, this is to increase the data accuracy for intelligence agencies all over the world, maybe...

You are probably thinking, I should be totally fine if I don't use this face tagging feature. Mind you, there is always this guy or girl in your group that will actually tag everyone in every pictures.

A picture taken by a modern digital camera already has time and other meta-data on it. Combined with the increasingly popular geotagging technology (e.g. iPhone), a picture can now tell who, when and also where.

Good bye, privacy!