Ultimate in Cyberstalking

With the advent of Google Goggles, which enables people to search on the Internet by searching a photos, it is only a matter of time before the search engine is used to cyber stalk people

From the CNN article, I quote:  Although the service can recognize faces, since faces are among the billions of images in the database, it doesn’t right now, Gundotra said.  ”For this product, we made the decision not to do facial recognition,” Gundotra said. “We still want to work on the issues of user opt-in and control. We have the technology to do the underlying face recognition, but we decided to delay that until safeguards are in place.”

Imagine being able to take a picture of someone as you walk by and pull up their name, address, phone number and other related information.

Privacy has been dead.  We’re just beating it with a large stick now.

-brian

Sources:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/08/google.goggles/index.html

http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/