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Released: August 01, 2011
Face-ID tools pose new risk
Source: Julia Angwin, Wall Street Journal
As Internet giants Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. race to expand their facial-recognition abilities, new research shows how powerful, and potentially detrimental
to privacy, these tools have become.
Armed with nothing but a snapshot, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh successfully identified about one-third of the people they tested,
using a powerful facial-recognition technology recently acquired by Google.
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