Of course, the government and large private companies have had access to facial recognition software for years. The pressing question today is what happens to privacy when everyone has access to the technology? Already smaller businesses--and even private individuals--are developing sometimes amazing, sometimes very creepy uses for security-focused software.This is a wide-ranging article that does a good job of pulling together examples of how facial recognition technology is being applied by all sorts of people for all sorts of purposes.
Some of the examples are a little strange (though they all received plenty of press attention) but I guess that's part of the point.
