A Facial Recognition Software Can Scan A Photo Of Yours And Reveal Your Most Sensitive Information
Vinh Nguyen
Posted on August 1st, 2011
PCMag has a piece on a newly developed application which can reveal people’s personal and sensitive data such as a social security number by tapping into facial recognition technology. According to PCMag, researchers at Carnegie Mellon confidently suggest that they can do this to a total stranger. Perhaps, someday people who have access to this very application can just take a photo of a passerby and get to know such person intimately in term of identity. What about people who just go onto Facebook and other social network websites and download strangers’ photos so they can use this facial recognition application to steal people’s identities? Maybe even a simple photo of your face on the web can totally give up your identity to whoever…
Tagged: facial recognition, identity, personal, photo, privacy