Google Knows Your Face

I just discovered the latest version of Picasa: 3.5. This application from Google is a handy way to organize your photos. I had tried it before, but there is a new capability in this version that has me hooked: Name Tags, aka facial recognition. The app indexes through your photos, picking out facial patterns. You associate the faces with your contacts (or, if you choose, you may ignore certain faces), and in short time Picasa will actually start making its own suggestions by recognizing unique facial patterns. In the end, just synchronize all your data up to Google's cloud and you'll be quickly recognized by every government security camera in no-time.