Ooh, tricky question:
How will the privacy features of my service designed to remove privacy work?
Ever been sat in a bar and recognised someone, but don't have the balls to ask where you know them from? Soon you can rudely snap a pic to figure it out. Google is readying a mobile application that allows access to a person's personal details simply by snagging a photograph of them, CNN reports. Of course, users would have …
That said, I was once in a bar and someone wandered up to me with a photo of me on their phone saying 'this is you, isn't'. Neither of us had any recollection of meeting each other, it was pretty, well, odd. Especially as i seemed to be in a house, rather than a packed club or something.
I can imagine it now... to be excluded from ID search just open a Google account if you haven't already, upload your photo (or more than one from different angles for more accuracy), and to prove authenticity enter your address with a scan of driver's licence or passport and as a final step a mobile phone number which will recieve a text message with a code that you must input into the form to confirm...
I was thinking that a lot recently, AR barely existed when Eden of the East came out, and it was pretty integral to the show, there was the recognition system linked to a meta search system. All things that seem to have taken off recently (and strongly represent the things in the anime.)
The central premis being smart phones linked to a system that scrapped other databases as well as information directly linked into the system. Kind of an interlink of message boards, face book, streetview, ar, and every database publicly accessible. So you could take a picture of someone and it's instantly posted for people to comment on as well as it being able to search for any comparable images in any thing it can access.
Has to be said it's the kind of thing that's almost inevitable, as even now you could take a picture upload it to somewhere and ask for information about it and depending where you put the picture you could have answers within moments (some more informative than others.)
It's exciting and, scary, but the applications are fascinating. For better or worse.