Facebook's Facial Recognition Draws US Senate Scrutiny

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With Facebook’s recent acquisition of facial recognition software company, Face.com, privacy concerns have been raised again by the US Senate. Senator Al Franken is heading the subcommittee holding hearings on how Facebook intends to use information gathered by the newly acquired facial recognition software.

Existing laws are "almost totally unprepared" to deal with facial recognition technology, Franken said.
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They aren't necessarily against it... they just want in on the action, since, you know, it's hard to track your own populace.
 
Parmenides said:
They aren't necessarily against it... they just want in on the action, since, you know, it's hard to track your own populace.
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Well, they want the whole action...then determine who gets to play in their sandbox.
 
I'm guessing they'll use it for auto-tagging. But just a guess Senator Franken. Just a guess.
 
Really, Franken is right. The US legal system hasn't yet handled the many ways this can create problems for society. While the answer may not lay in creating new laws, it is something worth their time to discuss.
 
It is just amazing now that the US government (and its senators) loves to question companies before they've actually done anything. Just the slightest sense that they might do something that a senator doesn't like and they're calling for inquiries and questions to be answered. Not a lot different across the pond either where MS is getting questioned about Windows RT ... a product that isn't even released yet. Governments want their fingers in the pot from day one. It'll reach the point soon where (if your company or product line is successful) you'll have to get government approval before each step to make sure it fits their narrow view of the world.
 
Ididar said:
It is just amazing now that the US government (and its senators) loves to question companies before they've actually done anything. Just the slightest sense that they might do something that a senator doesn't like and they're calling for inquiries and questions to be answered. Not a lot different across the pond either where MS is getting questioned about Windows RT ... a product that isn't even released yet. Governments want their fingers in the pot from day one. It'll reach the point soon where (if your company or product line is successful) you'll have to get government approval before each step to make sure it fits their narrow view of the world.
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Nah, that's why corporations lobby the government, so they can make the pesky questions go away...;)
 
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