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01/03/2007 Daily Dubleche: Polar Rose, Pedophiles
Anonymity On The Internet Has Been Given Its Final Deathblow
NEW YORK -- A Swedish start-up is combining software and humans to help make photos and other images more easily searchable online, raising privacy concerns as the technology eases the tracking of people across Web sites.
Traditionally, search engines analyze text surrounding an image on a Web site. So a search for "Bill Gates" might produce a photograph captioned with the name of the Microsoft Corp. chairman. But a search for a reporter's name might produce that same photograph if it had accompanied an article he had written.
Polar Rose AB is bringing facial-recognition technology to the mix. Its software scans everyday images for about 90 different attributes. If the software finds a match with images in a database, it concludes the two photos are of the same person.
The company, among many start-ups seeking to improve image search, believes its technology is noteworthy because it creates 3-D renditions of faces in images, allowing the computer to account for slight variations in angles and lighting. Read the post from thought-criminal.org here.
El Dubleche posted on Polar Rose last week. However, it seems that the more people are getting very upset about the possible implications this may have on privacy. Many of us do vanity searches on Google to see what shows up. With software like Polar Rose, you can vanity search with pictures. Also, has everyone forgotten about Riya?
FamilyWatchdog Scores in the Hunt for Pedophiles
FamilyWatchdog.US was recently used by a Florida mother to identify, locate and arrest a registered offender who attempted to lure her four-year-old son from a Florida park.
From "TheBullSpeaks.com" Omar posts and comments on a story out of Florida where a mother used FamilyWatchdog.us to protect here child and negihborhood from a recidvist sex offender. Read the entire post here.
Dubleche and the staff of PSN have writeen many articles encouraging parents to be proactive about their children's safety. You can read one our article here.
Jan 03, 2007
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