The presidential library in the US have released photographs of President Bush taken in the hours just after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre. They show an emotional bloke coming to terms with the enormity of the situation and are an intriguing view on what was a tragic, traumatic moment in time. It's also interesting that someone took the photographs at all - given the voyeuristic nature of them, but it's a good record to have.
Facebook is trying to roll out a facial recognition app that automatically tags people and posts their pictures on e.g. their own profile. However, the EU regulator types are not happy with it, and I can understand why. It seems that the Russians have a similar system on a facebookalike system, and a chap took some pictures of strangers, then used a facebookski app to find them - successfully I might add, thereby proving the technology was a success, and invading people's privacy at the same time. As usual, the balancing act between desirable and undesirable affects is very difficult to get right.
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