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The facial recognition technology that powers Face.com is now available to third-party developers. Those who are interested in using it inside of their applications will be able to take advantage of an open API that the company is making public Monday morning....
The Face API will also pool together its index of tags, meaning that if it recognizes your face from use in one app, it can recognize it another. There are some very clear privacy issues here, but opening up a tool like this to a wider set of data and applications can make for some very neat applications....
[news.cnet.com...]
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