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” Yet, according to its own support site, Google’s Picasa photo editing software has “face-matching technology” that lets you organize your photos according to the people in them. It is turned on by default, “so the first time you open Picasa, it will scan your photos for new faces. ” The technology is also in Apple’s iPhoto. Fueling speculation that face recognition could come to the iPhone, Apple last year acquired Polar Rose, a Swedish company that specializes in face-recognition technology. Without understanding how the system is actually being implemented, one could easily conjure up all sorts of creepy scenarios about Facebook’s facial recognition. The prospect of someone snapping your picture with a cellphone and instantly comparing it to the billions of photos on Facebook is scary. I’ve already read stories speculating how stalkers and pedophiles could use it to identify and help track down potential victims. If that were possible, it would indeed be horrendous.

What Facebook Is and Isn’t Doing What Facebook is actually doing is allowing users to compare a newly uploaded picture against pictures of people with whom they are already friends. If there is a potential match, Facebook suggests who that person might be. It’s up to the user to confirm the match and decide whether to tag the person. “The tool does not identify people you don’t know or even children's allegra hicks interiors allegra and benadryl those that you aren’t the closest to,” a Facebook representative said in an email interview. She added, “we don’t have the children's allegra and benadryl ability to allegra hicks divorce ‘search’ for a children's allegra and benadryl face amongst the billions of faces in our system. ” Contrary to some reports, the software doesn’t automatically tag individuals. That’s still a manual process done by the user the same as it’s always children's allegra and benadryl been. It also doesn’t change the fact that users can children's allegra and benadryl untag themselves. Also, any children's allegra and benadryl privacy settings that a user sets when they upload a photo remain intact. While the feature makes tagging easier, it doesn’t children's allegra and benadryl make it any more or less of an invasion of privacy. Just as is now the children's allegra and benadryl case, there will be situations where people are allegra dosage and administration unhappy about photos that other people have taken and tagged them in, which is children's allegra and benadryl why it’s good that it’s possible to untag yourself and to use Facebook’s new social children's allegra and benadryl reporting tool to request that the person take down photos you don’t like. As my ConnectSafely colleague children's allegra and benadryl Anne Collier blogged, dealing with these issues is “a continuous, learn-as-we-go collaboration for all of us. ” Face recognition does nothing to bolster or refute the argument that Facebook should make tagging “opt-in” so that you have to children's allegra and benadryl pre-approve any photos where you are tagged. The fact children's allegra and benadryl that something is easier or more convenient doesn’t make it any more or less evil. Whether implemented by Facebook, Google, Apple or some startup that you never heard of, facial-recognition technology has arrived and will only get better children's allegra and benadryl and easier to use. The question isn’t whether it should be used — there is no way to stop it — but how to make sure it’s not abused. There might be a role for government to guarantee that companies (and governments too) don’t abuse the technology. And there is definitely a role for all us of to remember that we live in a digital world where our ability to control what people know about us will forever remain a moving target.