Picasaweb on Evan Hoffmanhttps://evan.wtf/tags/picasaweb/Recent content in Picasaweb on Evan HoffmanHugoen-USEvan HoffmanFri, 06 Aug 2010 09:34:53 +0000The sinister side of Google's Picasa face tagginghttps://evan.wtf/2010/08/06/the-sinister-side-of-googles-picasa-face-tagging-2/Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:34:53 +0000https://evan.wtf/2010/08/06/the-sinister-side-of-googles-picasa-face-tagging-2/<p>So, let me start by saying that I love <a href="http://picasa.google.com/">Picasa</a>, Google&rsquo;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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format">EXIF metadata</a> of the photo, so any person, program or website with access to the image will know the location at which it was taken).</p>The sinister side of Google's Picasa face tagginghttps://evan.wtf/2010/08/06/the-sinister-side-of-googles-picasa-face-tagging/Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:34:53 +0000https://evan.wtf/2010/08/06/the-sinister-side-of-googles-picasa-face-tagging/<p>So, let me start by saying that I love <a href="http://picasa.google.com/">Picasa</a>, Google&rsquo;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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format">EXIF metadata</a> of the photo, so any person, program or website with access to the image will know the location at which it was taken).</p>