02.08.2011 01:20 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Carnegie Mellon researchers use photo-tagging to violate privacy, prove nothing social is sacred

Some people never forget a face and the same, it seems, can be said for the internet. With some off-the-shelf facial recognition software, a connection to the cloud and access to social networking data, Carnegie Mellon University researchers have proved tagging can be the everyman's gateway to privacy violation. Using a specially-designed, AR-capable mobile app, Prof. Alessandro Acquisti and his team conducted three real-world trials of the personal info mining tech, successfully identif

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