Liz Gannes in Mobile on May 10 at 6:00 am PT
Is taking pictures of your friends on your phone, tagging their names and uploading them just too darn hard?
Liz Gannes in Social on December 21, 2011 at 9:36 am PT
The Irish Data Protection Commission today concluded that Facebook has “a positive approach and commitment” to protecting the privacy of its international users.
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Emily Steel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on August 5, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Long the realm of science fiction, advanced technologies that identify faces now are emerging as the hottest entertainment gimmick, despite the potential for privacy concerns.
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Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 23, 2011 at 12:06 am PT
Google has acquired a seven-year-old company that develops facial-recognition technology for images and video, though the Web-search giant didn’t say what it plans to do with it.
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Emily Steel and Julia Angwin, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 13, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Dozens of law-enforcement agencies from Massachusetts to Arizona are preparing to outfit their forces with controversial hand-held facial-recognition devices as soon as September, raising significant questions about privacy and civil liberties.
Kara Swisher in Social on June 15, 2011 at 12:22 am PT
Whatever side of the Facebook facial recognition debate you are on — is it privacy panic or a Big-Brother crisis? — this video by Forbes blogger Kashmir Hill is pretty clever.
(Hey, Kashmir: Let me know when the aliens who really created Facebook and Google come for you, after they decide to start harvesting the Earth as planned using their nefarious photo-tagging tools!)
Peter Kafka in D9 on May 31, 2011 at 8:23 pm PT
Combine facial recognition + mobile tracking, and you’ve got the opportunity for real abuse, the Google chairman says, which is why his company won’t do it. But Google will have plenty of privacy problems anyway.
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Tomio Geron, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 10, 2011 at 12:41 pm PT
A number of websites, such as Face.com and Google Inc.’s Like.com, provide facial-recognition tools that enable users to search through digital photos. But new stealthy start-up Vicarious Systems intends to go much further with its artificial intelligence software.
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Dan Gallagher, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 11, 2010 at 2:16 pm PT
Microsoft Corp. officials are considering using the camera on their new Kinect videogame system to target ads to people watching the games.
Dennis Durkin, who serves as chief operating officer and chief financial officer for Microsoft’s Xbox video game business, told investors Thursday that Kinect – which allows users to play video games without so much as a joystick – presents business opportunities for targeted game marketing and advertising.
