After Shazam & co., Those software to identify a song Music making him listen to cellphones, is the latest devilry for the curious: the "Shazam" for people. photographed in the street an unconscious person. Back at home, load the photos on the internet and in the short time of a click, find the unsuspecting / a star of our shoot, with all his life, his photographs, his friendships, his tastes and interests.
Science fiction? CSI stuff? Nient'affato. This is the latest innovation in social networks. It's called Tag Suggestion and is an application which, needless to say, will soon be available to over 500 million users of Facebook. So, anyone can dig up your photo albums and find out who that guy was done against the backdrop of photos of New Year 2006 or find the girl immortalized bikini last summer, adult or minor to be. As indeed anyone, at any moment, you can fix in the memory of a mobile phone or a camera the face of a passer, to retrace later, sitting comfortably in an armchair at home.
In Italy, where there is a rather stringent privacy laws, but at the same time the enthusiasm for the social network is the highest in the world, someone is already starting to think about possible implications of this new technology for the privacy of individuals. Net of all the "advantages" Tag Suggestion System, which will delight even the "retraced" from friends and old flames by Facebook, it is still very much the view of mistakes and inconveniences inherent in such great wonder computer.
But technology does not stop, make no mistake, they will arrive still plenty of surprises in the future. So you just have to catch up with the times and adapt behaviors and habits to a context in which the personal will increasingly be put to the test, obviously with all the ensuing consequences.
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Facebook recognizes a face from the photos to find out the name
Facebook recognizes a face from the photos to find out the name
Jaime D'Alessandro, La Repubblica, December 17, 2010.
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