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Google+ Reveals ‘Find My Face’ Facial Recognition Capability

Google+ has jumped into the world of facial recognition technology, joining Facebook which launched its capability earlier this year. Google+ rolled out the “Find My Face” feature this week to make it easier and faster to tag people in your photos.

Google Launches Facial Recognition Capabilities

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Here’s what Matt Steiner, the Engineering Lead on the Google+ Photos team, had to say about the new tagging capabilities:

Around the holidays, many of us get together with friends and family, and if you’re like me, you take lots of photos! Tagging those photos can be a lot of work. So today we’re launching Find My Face, an easier way to tag photos of yourself and your friends.

By turning on Find My Face, Google+ can prompt people you know to tag your face when it appears in photos. Of course, you have control over which tags you accept or reject, and you can turn the feature on or off in Google+ settings. (https://plus.google.com/settings/plus)

CNN Money reports that at first glance Google+ Find My Face and Facebook’s facial recognition service look very similar, but there are some differences. Differences include that Google+ has users opt in to using the service before suggesting friends to tag and the person tagged will need to approve the photo before it goes live. Early this year, Facebook got itself into hot water over automatically opting in users to its facial recognition service, which it later apologized for and provided an opt out. CNN reports that at a recent policy summit of the Federal Trade Commission, Facebook came under criticism again for not requiring pre-approval of tags before they air.

Google Launches Facial Recognition Capabilities

Google has users opt in to using this service.

Here‘s more on Google’s efforts to maintain transparency and user privacy, especially with its location tracking tools:

Some criticism that the FTC did have for Find My Face, according to CNN, was that a person on Google+ using the service does not need to be in a shared “circle” — similar to a Facebook friend — in order to tag someone. On Facebook, one must be friends with the person they are tagging first.

Comments (26)

  • deeberj
    Posted on December 12, 2011 at 3:59pm

    Our freedom is falling away in bigger and bigger chunks.

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  • Arizona4Ever
    Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:40pm

    Wow – stalkers sure are going to love this app.

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  • doncorleone
    Posted on December 11, 2011 at 5:23pm

    I couldn’t find the story anywhere else, sorry. Wall Street Journal weekend reported this a.m. that the technology would be available to monitor and or adjust your electrical usage from your computer or i-phones outside your home. Heating-cooling, even window airconditioners can be adjusted, lighting, appliances also, is now available to the public. I believe that Glenn brought that up sometime last year, franklin raines of fannie/freddie mac fame, bought and holds the patents, if I remember correctly.

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  • HawkEyeTx
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 5:15pm

    #
    Tell Google’s VP Meyer to leave a hair alone or tie it down….how distracting…Duh

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    • universalphilos
      Posted on December 11, 2011 at 11:02pm

      I think a body language expert could tell us something about that. Doesn’t it imply discomfort, nervousness, hiding something, failure to disclose truthfully?

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  • BuggiOlleo
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:22pm

    Otay, yeah I’m stoopid..let me help you guys out, Look into my PC photo shop so google can use my mug for the data bank…Doe-doe-dio! Not happening..Googgle IS part of the NWOrder… actually, i thought i saw my neighbor with that darned tie commie camera..Jeeze they probably already got my mug; Aren’t we not suppose to sell each other out for a pack of ******* jack? This is such a slippery slope..Info police is-ping-ready!

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  • JEANNIEMAC
    Posted on December 10, 2011 at 10:46am

    Facebook was founded in 2004, a few months before Obama was introduced to the nation at the Democratic National Convention. Shortly after, he used it in his campaign for Senator, and by 2008, with a huge following, Facebook helped to get Obama elected into the Oval Office. Co-incidence?
    There are at lest six former Google executive in the Obama administration. At lest one Facebook executive was seen organizing demonstrations in Egypt.
    The ultimate Community Organizer in Chief has helped to organize the protests and demonstrations in our nation and around the world. Union leaders were in and out of the White House for weeks before the OWS protests started, getting their lists of who, what, when and where to start. Union members are being used to further the cause of the communist, George Soros, who funds many of the groups backing the protests. ACORN, whose members were originally trained by Obama, are now an international organization, helping to organize the riots in Europe.
    Thousands of copies of the Alinsky book for radicals have been distributed across the globe. Obama and Hillary Clinton both studied Alinsky’s methods, and Hillary wrote her college paper on Alinsky.
    The riots and demonstrations are all planned and organized by the global elite. They are using legitimate grievances to ignite anger among the people and encourage them to overthrow their governments, thus paving the way for one world government under the UN.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 11:08pm

    800 Million on Face Book… suckers!

    Report Post » lukerw  
    • pamela kay
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 1:58am

      Be Afraid, be very afraid.

      Report Post » pamela kay  
    • anOpinion
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 1:36pm

      The fact is, most of your information is on the internet already whether you like it or not. If you have ever filled in a form, applied for a credit card, etc.. either on paper or through a web browser, the companies eventually put it on their internet connected systems with dubious firewall/privacy protection.

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  • godflesh
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:49pm

    I’ll trust Google and Facebook about as far as i can toss a server farm. There are a multitude of reasons I deleted my Facebook account. Tracking cookies, facial recognition, games that invade your computer like a virus. Add all of that to the “opt out” services. If you know about it you can opt out. Even if you know about it and opt out of it that means that the service is no longer used by you, not them.
    “They” are in the data collection and archiving business.
    If you have an account, they own you.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:23pm

      When I go to TEA meetings, I wrap a scarf around my face to protect my face against frost bite and sun burn.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 10:25pm

      Google is the government. They are compelled to give the government anything it wants or face imprisonment and shut down. Twitter already turned over everything to the government out of fear.

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  • John 1776
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:58pm

    Just another technology Obama will use to hunt down those darn conservatives that won’t give up capitalism!!! Just ask his buddy Bill.

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  • RightThinking1
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 8:30pm

    Ok. So we are a step from someone snapping a pic of you, then Streetviewing their way to your house. Wonderful. Stalkers and pedophiles will love it.

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  • Codger
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:59pm

    This is not really so much new but rather a new spin on an old trick because Picasa (Googles’ photo organizing tool) has had this feature for a while now. It’s actually pretty slick and works surprisingly well for help in organizing peoples faces in all ones personal photos.

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  • StopGovtBondage
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:36pm

    I’m sick of Facebook and Google stalking me – and facial recognition is the last straw…. Why is the burden – and all the work on us – to constantly monitor and try to protect our privacy….

    I feel gang banged by Mark Zuckerburg and Eric Schmidt. Enough already!!!!

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 7:09pm

      Google can try to “Find my Mask” because that‘s all they’re going to see.

      RESIST THE NAZI POLICE STATE!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVVfed4cpA

      Report Post » V-MAN MACE  
    • Uncurable wound
      Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:07pm

      V-man,Green power ranger mask right.LOL!
      Sorry V couldnt let that one be..peace
      Have a blessed day!

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 10, 2011 at 4:39pm

      You’re way off. I wear just a normal black mask.

      The Eco-Nazi Green Police would be the ones wearing the green Power Ranger masks.

      Get it right.

      Report Post » V-MAN MACE  
    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on December 11, 2011 at 9:38am

      The Eco-Nazi Green Police are the ones wearing a green Power Ranger mask.

      Report Post » V-MAN MACE  
  • randy
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:32pm

    The Government loves all these sheep doing their job for them

    Report Post » randy  
  • TXPilot
    Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:16pm

    That’s it, things are getting a little creepy for me, so I’m gonna go buy one of those pairs of glasses with the big nose and mustache on them.

    Report Post » TXPilot  

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