Before we all get in a huff about this, Google has been very eager to point out that the facial credit app it's third world nation will work on a strictly opt-in basis. That means if you don't want it to scan all of Facebook, Flickr and the rest of Google's vast hoards of information superhighway wisdom to find you, finger you, and collate your name, phone number and email address into a handy data sheet, it won't. Okay? So relax now, everything's fine. Seriously though, Google's latest delving venture sounds like a dashing stride into a minefield of privacy concerned with as it aims to use people's faces to instantly make them and provide any salient info about them. Project leader Hartmut Neven, whose company Neven Vision was gobbled up by Google in 2006, says the team is being very cautious in how it deliver talk people's rather apt apprehension, but he insists there's in reality great value in having a face-recognizing and data-mining app. Great value for the app's user, perhaps, but we'd rather just stick to profession cards, if you ask us.



Update: Google has reached out to clarify that there are no plans to introduce functionality of this sort yet, not without "a strong privacy model in place." More importantly, however, the linking of facial credit to private




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