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Developments in Facial Recognition

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

"Facebook has recently embarked on a major photo tagging project, and already has the largest collection of identified photographs in the world outside of a government. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have combined the public part of that database with a camera and face-recognition software to identify students on campus."

Source: Crypto-Gram Newsletter

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Is Privacy Overrated?

Monday, September 26, 2011

"The most important contribution Jarvis makes to this debate lies in his effort to get us to think about privacy in the context of ethics instead of law. “Privacy is an ethic governing the choices made by the recipient of someone else’s information,” he argues, while “publicness is an ethic governing the choices made by the creator of one’s own information,” he says."

Source: Forbes