Canada to Collect Biometric Data from Visitors of All Countries

Richard Fadden, the soon-to-be head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), recently announced that Canada will soon collect biometric data--such as fingerprints and photos for face recognition--on visitors entering the country from all over the world. Currently...

Facebook Lives Up To Its Name, Recognizes Faces

Everybody's least favorite social network is at it again with more anti-privacy fun and add-on application antics. In today's edition of 'hey-look-it's-me' technology, two 'face' sites have joined forces to identify...

WebCam Software understands Gender and Age!

The cameras are getting smarter. First they only had to identify what was a face. Then they started comparing faces to find matches. Now they're figuring out what the faces actually are.But I guess you'd expect that to happen - because humans are programming the software to...

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