Whether society embraces face recognition on a larger scale will ultimately depend on how legislators, companies and consumers resolve the argument about its singularity. Is faceprinting as innocuous as photography, an activity that people may freely perform? Or is a faceprint a unique indicator, like a fingerprint or a DNA sequence, that should require a person's active consent before it can be collected, matched, shared or sold?
Actually these sort of things are also quite easy to exploit. Print a picture of Osama bin Laden on your t-shirt and have the entire police force scared out of their wits.
Again, amazing insects!
Scientists have discovered that Polistes fuscatus paper wasps can recognize and remember each other's faces with sharp accuracy, a new study suggests.
Dr. Atick is firmly in the second camp.