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Thursday, 24 January 2013

faceless

Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
I was just uploading my photo to my Google profile.  The drag-and-drop interface is nice (although it's very irritating to be told of the minimum 250x250 pixel size only after uploading a smaller pic).  However, I was a little disconcerted to see:



No, the problem isn't that I have acquired a large red halo!  That's just there to highlight the surprising warning box:

Are you sure people will recognize you in this photo? It doesn't seem to have a face in it.

I'm not sure whether to be concerned at my lack of face, or to be pleased that I'm immune to Google's face recognition software...
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