Here's an interesting episode of BBC Click, it's actually about artificial intelligence and machines but it delves into facial recognition. The UK has placed a lot of cameras in their cities to prevent crimes and it has the ability to identify people. Based on the episode San Francisco has decided against it. A few years back Facebook actually implemented some form of facial recognition technology wherein it automatically identifies the people who are included in the photos you post. I found the technology quite scary and creepy that it can easily identify your pictures. For some reason probably because of clamor against it it didn't push through with the implementation. Obviously the technology works very well. From what I gather the rationale of Facebook was that it will use the facial recognition technology to warn you if other people will use your pictures to create fake profile. It needed your permission to use the technology - given that it's no longer coming up they probably shelved implementation. I'm quite sure though that they use and experiment on the software constantly.
The BBC Click episode is quite interesting showing the good and the bad of the facial recognition technology.
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