The advent of facial recognition technology promises to transform the way people view society, privacy and each other. Imagine being able to find out the names - if not the addresses, product preferences, and internet use - of anyone you have a photo of. While Picassa (who store the photos appearing on Blogger blogs such as this one) already uses such technology, Google is currently weighing the pros and cons. Not that they haven't been playing around with it for awhile now.
The implications for pornography are dramatic and varied. Those anonymous naked pictures you took 20 years ago? Not so anonymous anymore. Or maybe you'd like to see if a given person has ever been photographed in the nude? Or you'd just like to masturbate to someone who looks like them?
The possibilities are endless. Will burqas go mainstream as a consequence? Probably not. But maybe people shooting sex films yet desirous of internet anonymity could begin surgically altering their faces to defeat facial recognition? Or using make-up? Or taking up chewing tobacco? Will amateur porn stars return to wearing masks while they film themselves having it off?
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