על חוק הפרטיות, החוק הביומטרי ו Face.com
A new Facebook application invented by Israeli company face.com. Yaniv Taigman, Edan Shohat, Moti Shnaiberg, and Gill Hirsch, have put together software that sifts through yours and your friends Facebook photos and, through state-of-the-art facial recognition software, will quickly scan (duration of the search depends on the amount of pictures you and your friends have uploaded) all of your photos and your friends public photos, identifying all unidentifieds and tagging them.
The application is currently in an invitation only alpha phase, but it works just like any other Facebook application. Once you install it on your profile, you just click the “get started” button and away you go, identifying everyone.
The performance of the technology is astounding. I can identify people in slightly blurred pictures, even if they’re wearing sunglasses and a wig. Photoshopped pictures can’t even get by this thing, and even ones with half the face showing can be successfully identified.
This application was reported by Ynet last week, as another potential privacy killer. And if the Biometric Law gets passed, what do we have left?
Though the technology can certainly be used for good, and facial recognition software that actually works well is the envy of law enforcement world wide, for people who put pictures of us everywhere on the net, our lives become an open book for anyone who wants to find out who we are and what we’re doing.
