It appears that a search engine will scan faces on the web. The technology is being deployed by Polar Rose.
In January users will be able to download a plugin for their browser that allows users to enter information about faces they recognise in online images. This data is then sent to a central server allowing anyone looking at an image containing that particular face print to tell who it is. Users can also search the web for more photos containing that face.
Meanwhile, the suspect in a surveillance video that was posted to YouTube by police has apparently turned himself in.
[Hamilton] Police uploaded the video clip to YouTube in early December, hoping it would draw out witnesses. Since the time it was uploaded, the video was reportedly viewed online about 17,000 times...
Investigators believed the jumpy video of people at a concert would get wide exposure among the age group of people who attended the Nov. 16 show...
Police may have expected that the video would also be exposed to the suspect.
The trend of harvesting biometric data from the web continues. The ultimate result is likely to be a Web 2.0, participatory take on the Panopticon, with people eagerly watching each other, enabling monitoring by citizen stalkers as well as authorities. Cellphone cameras and surveillance video cameras will be distributed eyes everywhere.
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