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11 Oct 2010 08:31:45
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Following our blogposts yesterday regarding the introduction of facial recognition systems schools and the iPhone Facebook application's leeching of your private data, it now appears Apple are set to go one step further and allow you to fuse the two. Apple has recently acquired the facial-recognition software firm Polar Rose whose technology has the ability to allow internet users to "tag, detect, manage, and search for Facebook (including other social networks) friends in Flickr photos". The Business Press reports that it appears likely Apple will "implement the technology into mobiles.., allowing users to easily tag, search and manage friends with...
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The Big Brother Watch team is well used to receiving reports of odd and extraordinary rulings from education-establishment busybodies but this one, quite literally, takes the biscuit. Kathleen Lavery, a married mother of three, has been forced to quit her job as a primary school dinner lady in the Northern Ireland town of Enniskillen following the stress of an internal disciplinary procedure instigated after she gave a young child a biscuit. Mrs Lavery was informed by the school that “her actions could be interpreted by some as grooming a child for sexual purposes”, a preposterous allegation which has led to...
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It is not just USA citizens that they want to spy on. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0%2C1518%2C721811%2C00.html#ref=rss
Also see http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/fbi-drive-for-encryption-backdoors-is-deja-vu-for-security-experts.ars
For how they want to backdoor all cryptography programmes. Skype could be illegal etc...
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