Course once we scan faces, the ultimate 'personal' thing, we can scan anything else. Like products people are wearing or carrying. And associate them with the person. And associate them with any other process context. So someone who picks up a product has an intent to buy. Puts in their cart, yet more so. Takes it out the door, you bought it. Like in Amazon Go. Where is the line? That its a photo? Not creepy yet to me, just reasonable assumptions.
Creepy Facebook patent uses image recognition to scan your personal photos for brands
By Melissa Locker in Fastcompany
Facebook has just been awarded a patent for technology that could let the social network scan through your photos, see what products you like, and then send that data to advertisers in the hopes of selling you more of the product. Specifically, the patent was awarded for “Computer-vision content detection for sponsored stories,” which can be used for “applying computer vision algorithms to user-uploaded multimedia objects to detect specific objects within the multimedia object, and promoting the uploaded multimedia object from a users’ news feed to a sponsored stories area.” ...
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