While this seems like an exciting development,
it does have a Orwellian aspect. What could be next? Credit scores when you see
a shopper? Education for employers? As a business attorney I can think of many
applications for my clients but I'm sure it will also bring issues.
New Google Glass App Can
Recognize Up to 450,000 Sex Offenders so You Know When to Run
Though Google has
banned facial recognition from Google Glass, one company is throwing that to
the wind and is doing their own, anyway—and it's specializing in sex offenders.
NameTag, the Nevada-based company, has developed a Glass app
that can recognize up to 450,000 sex offenders, and pulls its data from FacialNetwork.com. “I believe that this will make online dating
and offline social interactions much safer and give us a far better
understanding of the people around us,” said NameTag’s founder Kevin Tussy.
“It’s much easier to meet interesting new people when we can simply look at
someone, see their Facebook, review their LinkedIn page or maybe even see their
dating site profile.”
For
all of you sex offenders out there that would rather your information not be
made available on the app, there is a way around it. “People will soon be able to login to http://www.NameTag.ws and choose whether or not they want their name and
information displayed to others," Tussy says, "It’s not about
invading anyone’s privacy; it’s about connecting people that want to be
connected. We will even allow users to have one profile that is seen during
business hours and another that is only seen in social situations. NameTag can
make the big, anonymous world we live in as friendly as a small town.”
If you're wondering how NameTag will be available on Glass though
Google has banned facial recognition, it's because users can still jailbreak
the device to do so, and Google has released instructions on
how to do it.
So, the next time you're out at a bar, you'll be able to quickly
recognize if the dude your chick friend is talking to is a major concern. Well,
that's if Google Glass doesn't keep getting banned from bars, that is.
http://www.complex.com/tech/2013/12/google-glass-sex-offender-app-nametag
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