Facial Recognition: Beating Surveillance Cameras - Yahoo! News:
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Big Brother is watching you, though probably not in the ways most of us would imagine.
Sure, the cameras at banks or airport checkpoints may be on the lookout for robbers or would-be terrorists, using facial recognition technology to match pictures to existing ones. But private enterprise is busy as well.
If you tag a picture of yourself on Facebook or Google's Picasa, that image can be used to identify you in other pictures.
Adam Harvey says the technology is intruding on your right to privacy, and he's figured out some low-tech ways to outsmart them.
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