Gil Hirsch, chief executive of Face.com, told The Sunday Times: ‘We have launched a service that allows developers to take our facial recognition technology and apply it immediately to their own applications.
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‘The technology is already being used by 5,000 developers. You can basically search for people in any photo.
‘You could search for family members on Flickr, in newspapers, or in videos on YouTube – but it would take a lot of processing power.’
The use of facial detection technology has only been used by the UK Border Agency.
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