Can a Photo of Your Face Reveal Your Interests & Social Security Number?

The first widely available consumer software that featured face recognition was Apple’s iPhoto for Mac OS X. Google’s Picasa followed suit and Apple’s own iPhone Photos app gained a “Faces” feature soon afterward. Facebook added facial recognition this summer that semi-automated the tagging process. Hundreds of millions of photos are uploaded to Facebook each day. This means the odds are there are millions of photos of people who are unaware they are in a photo (perhaps passing by in the backgroud) that could be identified as the facial recognition database grows and gets more information.