Privacy concerns arise from Google Goggles facial recognition/stranger identifier search results…

by
Mike
Posted December 14th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Simply taking a picture of some object and using it to search for more relevant information doesn't seem that difficult until you actually think about the tools necessary to complete such a search. I mean, taking a picture of a simple can of beans (it's early and I'm hungry) means the phone/software has to properly determine what is text/images before actually searching for it so it knows what to search for. Second, the actual algorithms for the search software then have to somehow find the ex...