Microsoft's OneVision Video Recognizer
This is very significant. This software, which I am assuming was running on a standard desktop, can capture your face and identify you on live video. This is 1984 Big Brother type technology. First, advertisers will love it, and use it to identify where you shop, and target ads at you personally. You saw this in Back to the Future 2, Minority Report, and tons of other SciFi movies. Second, and in all likelihood the order will be the reverse, Police/FBI/CIA organizations will deploy it to try to catch the bad guys. The problem is that you lose your privacy. This is a serious question, and as the commentator on the link suggests, is not one to be taken lightly. Still, I figure at airports, and places like that, I don't mind. After all, we already are telling them who we are, let alone see us naked. Don't get me started on the latter, and how much that makes me angry.
Anyway, the problem with the technology is that they can do it, and do it easily. I guarantee that cell phones, or other such devices will be doing it in 5-10 years. They are already extraordinarily powerful.
Oh Brave New World, here we come...
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