We are not talking simply of constricted and restrained Web 2.0 applications that are limited to consenting/opt-in users, such as maybe Picasa or currently Facebook tagging. We are talking about the world where anyone in the street could in fact recognize your face and make these inferences, because the data is really already out there, it is already publicly available.
So, what will our privacy mean in this kind of future, in this augmented reality future? And have we already created a de facto ‘Real ID‘ infrastructure? Although Americans are against Real IDs, we have already created one through the market place.
Google recently started allowing pattern based searches for images, but not faces yet
As I move on to describing the actual experiments that we ran to debate these questions I put here, I want to stress some of the themes I have already highlighted, because I really hope that what will remain after this talk will not be simply the numeric results of these experiments but what they imply for the future.Continue reading