On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we discuss new software from Lamda Labs and facial recognition with Google Glass. The first version of Lamda Labs software doesn’t have real-time recognition. It forces users to take photographs, tag them with information on who is in them and then compare any subsequent photographs taken to those previously uploaded.

Google almost angrily reminds us constantly that Glass itself does not include facial recognition. It has been under considerable pressure from U.S. senators to answer questions they claim the wearable computer raises over privacy. But as a loophole of sorts, the device’s terms and conditions do not explicitly forbid using the device’s camera to detect faces and then to identify them via Glass’s screen. With the announcement yesterday from Lamda Labs, those issues over privacy could become real sooner rather than later.

It is very likely that future versions of the software will provide real-time facial recognition. Someone with Google Glass on could see you on a crowded train and know exactly who you are.

Joining us now to tell us more about the controversy surrounding facial recognition software is SiliconANGLE Founding Editor Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins. (See the live broadcast embedded below ~ if you missed today’s topic, check our YouTube channel for archived clips.)

Some of the things we’ll be discussing with Hopkins include whether Glass should deploy facial recognition integration, the large hurdles Glass still faces from reaching its full potential as a wearable device for widespread public consumption, and what real-time facial recognition software means to you and me moving forward.

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