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Meet the creepiest Google Glass app ever created

06
Feb
2014

We’ve seen a lot of potentially creepy uses for Google Glass but none of them have anything on what the crew at NameTag have been working on. As Phandroid’s Quentyn Kennemer points out, NameTag uses facial recognition technology to search for someone’s face anywhere it can find it on the web and give you as much information about them as it can find. This means that if you look at someone’s face, NameTag will crawl through Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Twitter and other social media to tell you absolutely everything you might want to know about them, including their job, their interests and their relationship status. The app even yanks out any information on you from public records databases and will let

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