Facial recognition software makes finding Web photos easier

Swedish start-up Polar Rose AB plans to offer software to make it easy to find photos of familiar faces online, the company said yesterday, solving difficult Web search issues while potentially raising new privacy concerns.

Polar Rose said it plans to offer free software to make photos searchable on both personal computers and across the Web by analyzing the contents of pictures with pattern recognition technology to locate specific faces within them.

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