Face Detection Technology Tool Now Detects Your Moods Too

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The facial recognition service that was touted as capable of putting a name on every face in every online photo can now recognize your moods as well.

When Facebook automatically enabled facial recognition for photo tagging purposes last month, the company was forced to apologize after the backlash from angry users who had their privacy invaded by default yet again. Was that anger caused by Facebook changing the privacy settings, or because the photo tagging used facial recognition software, or a bit of both? Face.com, a face detection and recognition service, believes their software is cool, not creepy, and that people have overcome privacy concerns about a technology that can identify faces . . . and the moods on those faces as well.

After Face.com launched its free API last year, the company's service was called the "facial recognition software that will put a name to every photograph in the Internet." Developers have been using Face.com's Photo Finder to allow people to "search for anyone" on the web with "90% accuracy on social networking sites." Face.com had originally limited the software due to "concerns about invasion of privacy."

After more than 20,000 developers had tried out Face.com's free APIs, the software company launched a newsletter for developers which announced more free API face detection tools. This time, the service can identify a person's expression as well as estimate their mood.

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"It is cool, not creepy, and that people have overcome concerns about a technology that can identify faces"

TRANSLATION:

"We are telling you that it's cool and not creepy knowing that many don't understand propaganda and we make it seem like we have beaten a giant (achieved a goal, making YOU feel good and included) by saying we overcame the crude privacy concerns, our projected opinions are meant to be trendy, erasing any concern by making you feel as though you were a brave part of the pack, all too ready to now hate privacy and embrace Big Brother voyeurism, unafraid to have your faces scanned and countless of other private information sold off. Nothing to fear here, we're just documenting EVERYTHING you say."