Google won’t -- but they will.

Amid growing privacy concerns and repeated statements from Google that its futuristic wearable computer can’t recognize faces, a California software developer has done just that, releasing facial recognition software for Google Glass.

Lambda Labs software lets anyone wearing Google Glass look up faces in a crowd against a computer database, instantly showing someone’s name and any other vital bits of data contained in the app. And even the app developer acknowledges the implications for privacy.

“We have no plans to provide a global facial recognition database,” Stephen Balaban, founder of Lambda Labs, told FoxNews.com. “That’s probably not a good idea.”

Instead, Balaban’s technology is an API intended to allow other software developers working with early versions of Glass to write their own apps.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/28/facial-recognition-software-...

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Dan Misener: How Google Glass and facial recognition technology could affect your privacy

Thanks to new technology, the age of consumer-friendly real-world face recognition may be nigh

Posted: May 28, 2013 10:56 AM ET

Last Updated: May 28, 2013 10:55 AM ET

Thanks to improvements in facial recognition technology, ubiquitous data connections, and the burgeoning field of camera-equipped wearable devices like Google Glass, facial recognition is poised to go mainstream. Thanks to improvements in facial recognition technology, ubiquitous data connections, and the burgeoning field of camera-equipped wearable devices like Google Glass, facial recognition is poised to go mainstream. (The Canadian Press)

In a 2011 op-ed for The Globe and Mail, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian outlined a possible near-future. "Imagine a scenario," she wrote, "where you're walking down the street or attending a sports event or shopping at a mall, and your photo is taken, identified, tagged and matched against a database of facial templates, without your knowledge or consent."

I'd call that surreptitious facial recognition.

Cavoukian called it "an affront to privacy that should not be tolerated."

But two years later, Cavoukian's scenario seems increasingly plausible.

Thanks to improvements in facial recognition technology, ubiquitous data connections, and the burgeoning field of camera-equipped wearable devices, the age of consumer-friendly real-world face recognition may be nigh.

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