Thursday, July 14, 2011

Ubiquitious facial-recognition software is coming

Smile, You're On Everyone's Camera (Slate.com)
Slate has a great article on facial recognition technology today.

It takes the baton from yesterday's WSJ article on BI2's MORIS law enforcement technology and provides historical context including our famous FaceTrac project at the 'Snooper Bowl' in 2001.

What I like most about this article is that it acknowledges the dislocations that ubiquitous biometrics (like all new technologies) will cause but recognizes that on net, ordinary people are demanding these technologies and that people will adjust.

Good on author Farhad Manjoo and Slate.com.