[Sam's Army]

"The researchers imagine an app that notices a user’s eating or exercise habits and suggests possible adjustments."

Can we imagine an app that doesn't seek to know everything about us instead?

[Sam's Army]

"The researchers do examine the possibility of an image-analysis algorithm that could complement theirs by identifying and removing private information from images automatically"

Sure it will...

[NorthMountain]

Point-of-view photography (“egography”) allows insights that can be extremely useful when put to work for users, but it can also create a very desirable target for criminal hackers and nosy advertising companies.

And tyrants.

[Albion Wilde]

Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has worked on so-called e-memory, which aims to assist human recall with computers. He says that the key is giving machines the ability to recognize the content of photos.

When a person goes to Walmart to print photos from an iPhone, the photo kiosk uploads the user's complete photo album from the device, even if it is hundreds of photos, then asks the user to choose the photo he wants to print. Lastly, before printing the user's photo, it asks for his or her name, address and phone number. This is completely creepy. Why can the user not just upload a single photo to the machine to have it printed?

[bgill]

Uh, let me ponder the ramifications of this app.

NO!