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You're a few months out of date. Plans for this have been scaled back to the portage areas: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2014/03/05/...

While I share your dislike of the program, it's important to look at the overall scope rather just the government one. After all, you could build a pretty good automatic photo identification system on top of Facebook.



>After all, you could build a pretty good automatic photo identification system on top of Facebook.

There's very little utility in identifying people in pictures that were uploaded intentionally by people who knew who the people in the pictures were before they uploaded them.


It's easy to connect with vast numbers of people that you don't actually know, and then you can upload your own photos to see who is in them.


Yeah, but Facebook photos are shared explicitly by users with their agreement to Facebook use terms.




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