I recently started using Picasa, which has facial recognition technology. It's absolutely terrifying. Not only is Big Brother watching you, he's also looking at all of your photographs, tagging all of the faces within them (including the crowds in the background) and then locating them on Googlemaps.
I really don't know how to feel about the whole thing. Amazing technology, but really scary at the same time.
However, it's not perfect. Look at the two photographs above. One is two plugs in a socket with a toaster and one is an Irish male. Picasa thinks they are the same thing. Maybe Picasa is on to something.
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