Google Plans Facial Recognition App That Can Pull Up Personal Data When It Sees A Face (Updated)

Wow, it took them long enough- How long will it take, I wonder, for them to be able to access the gigantic store of faces inside Facebook? I think that in a few years we able to wear a pair of augmented-reality glasses that recognizes almost everyone around you by name+ tells you information about them (so you can know the name of your grocery store clerk by name and creep them out!). Go future!

Wow is nothing safe anymore? seriously. Everything that has to do with personal info is all over the internet. And they are still deciding to come out with new ways to find info about people.

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Rewatch the minority report in a decade, it will look like a completely realistic movie.

except precogs probably still won't exist...

Fundamentally I think it will be a good thing. It will cause people to act more responsibly in a public setting.
People who act rudely will not be screened by anonymity any longer. And someone who defrauds others, can be treated accordingly by civil society. That will make sociopaths lives much more difficult, as they will be recognized by strangers and treated accordingly for their actions.

@barnz - In some ways, I agree, in others I do not.

For one, it is true that people will begin to act differently while knowing they could be watched. Hence the purpose of dummy (or real) cameras located in gas-stations and super-markets. However, if such a system expanded to the point where there is NO privacy, then you will ultimately need a system where observers who police every action will need observers to police their actions.
Such a problem exists already in our justice system where corruption is often times just one layer above - that being those enforcing the laws. If a system was in place where Group A monitored Groups B and C, and in turn Group B monitored Groups A and C, and in turn Group C monitored Groups A and B, certainly this check-and-balance system solves some of the problems... however I can only imagine the expense and paranoia that would create. It also means that under the right conditions, someone could influence two of them to target a 3rd group.

I also picture in my head the scenario of the sitcom where person A exposes (by mistake) the dark secret of person B to person C... in turn, as revenge person B, reveals the dark secret of person A (ect...) and next thing you know EVERYONE is mad at EVERYONE and no one wins. Then we all laugh and say "that could never happen in real life". But can it?