Governments, retailers and social networks are driving multiple-use scenarios toward ubiquitous facial recognition capability, a technology that’s moved out of the realm of fiction and Hollywood (George Orwell’s novels, or Mission Impossible, Bourne Ultimatum, Minority Report or Matrix Reloaded) into the realm of everyday acceptance. There are the applications and tools that “suggest” the identity of a given person, ranging from who is the actor on the screen, to the much more problematic and frankly creepy ability to collect information on the stranger across the aisle from me on the subway using an app on my smartphone.

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