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The sinister side of Google's Picasa face tagging

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:34:53 +0000

So, let me start by saying that I love Picasa, Google’s photo organization tool. It automatically finds new photos as you add them to your hard drive. It lets you crop pictures, remove red-eye, adjust colors and make a few other basic edits that cover probably 95% of what most people need to do when editing photos. It lets you select a few photos from your library and email them to anyone with just a couple of clicks. It also integrates with Google Earth and Google Maps to show you on a map where a particular photo was taken (for those unaware, GPS-enabled cameras, including many mobile phone cameras [e.g., iPhone] embed your GPS coordinates within the EXIF metadata of the photo, so any person, program or website with access to the image will know the location at which it was taken).

The sinister side of Google's Picasa face tagging

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:34:53 +0000

Face tagging in Picasa 3.5 is pretty friggin sweet

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:58:59 +0000

The face tagging feature in Picasa 3.5 is really cool I don’t really have anything special to say about this. I just downloaded it and it’s only 15% done with my library but it’s really neat. Download it here if you don’t have it.