Quote Originally Posted by TsPoet View Post
I tried to look this up on snopes and others and can't find any reference true or false - do you have a source for this?
Well, I can't find the most recent couple of stories that DH and I were just talking about last week, but here are a few:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2297...is_creepy.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...rivacy-germany
http://gizmodo.com/5831119/police-us...ts-in-uk-riots
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug...ition-20110821


And EPIC's somewhat dated but more general page: https://epic.org/privacy/facerecognition/

Basically, there's one general principle that I've referenced before: if you're receiving something from a for-profit business and you're not paying for it, you are the product being sold. It's all well and good that these things are amusing, but that they're amusing isn't why the companies give them to you for free.