Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? 469
An anonymous reader writes "Since the first demonstration of the plausible future abilities of Google Glass, instant facial recognition has been one of the most exciting ideas in the pipeline. According the the development group Facial Network, the time for real-time facial recognition through Google Glass is coming a lot sooner than we originally expected. This isn't an app developed by Google, it's a 3rd party developer group — they've gone and done it first!"
The application is not on the Play store due to the ban on facial recognition. It performs real time recognition, and pulls information from public databases. The authors intend to allow people to opt-out of the recognition database.
Re:Time to start putting make-up on (Score:4, Funny)
Okay, then wear a niqab [wikipedia.org]: technically it's not allowed in many countries (for the very reason that the police can't see your face), but it falls in the "religion" category, so niqab wearers often get away with it on the ground that society as a whole is supposed to show the greatest amount of tolerance for religious stuff for some reason.
With a garment like this, even men can wear one and become virtually undetectable.
Google introduces robot.txt... for your face (Score:5, Funny)
Just tattoo the standard robots.txt entries on your forehead, and Google Glass will obey. Don't want to be indexed at all? Disallow: * Or perhaps you just don't want people to see your stomach? Disallow: stomach. You can also keep stalkers at bay with a simple "Noindex,nofollow" above your lips.
Re:Ready or not (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sad mistake of technology-focused people (Score:4, Funny)
Of the camera.
With spray paint.