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Ladies: if you thought random dudes sending you marriage proposals laced with spelling mistakes and little-to-no grammar on MySpace was freaky, just wait until mugr.com takes off -- the creepy quotient promises to be off the scales.
Mugr is essentially a "face-based" search engine, linked to its own social-networking site (and offered to others through an API), connects images of people's faces to information about their identity.
Want an example? Say a dude is at Trader Joe's and sees you shopping for asparagus, but can't muster the cojones to actually step his game up and say something to you. So what does he do? He takes your picture on his cell phone, uploads the shot to MUGR, and gets a message back telling him who you are. Creepy enough for you?
The folks at Mugr have an answer to the obvious privacy questions: "The technology that powers mugr.com is not so terribly different as that possessed by many governments and law enforcement agencies. As such, there is no reason that the public should not have the ability to do what it will with such technology. In the end, the technology at mugr.com is only frightening if its users make it so."
Yeah, um...they will. Let the anarchy begin (in a few years, at least, when the thing actually works. Maybe).
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsTomFeb 1st 2008 2:37PM
This sounds like a fantastic tool for (potentially violent) criminals and con-artists to steal identities, stalk, harrass, and con innocent victims. Contact your Congressperson and Senator as soon as possible.
JoshFeb 2nd 2008 12:02AM
I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, they can take a picture of my A$$. What was that?? That picture is already online?? Well all be....it is online, in Google images non the less. right here even... http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.g-8.de/Content/EN/StatischeSeiten/G8/Lebensl_C3_A4ufe/Bilder/george-w-bush,property%3Dposter.jpg&imgrefurl=http://thenumbat.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/gordon-brown-sexy-pm-or-sexiest-pm/&h=580&w=481&sz=60&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=gJq5o2TEXw4D8M:&tbnh=134&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgeorge%2Bw%2Bbush%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26ie%3DUTF-8
kristenFeb 7th 2008 5:47PM
This should be illegal. I don't like all the new technologies that let anyone know just about anything about you. What is this world coming to? Is there any privacy left?
snugglemebaby13Nov 2nd 2007 10:05AM
I think it's sick. I don't want any random person in this world to know who I am. If I wanted them to know who I was I would do something to make myself known. From finding my name from the picture they can google me and find out even more info. I think it is crossing the line and invading the whole worlds privacy.
JS2Nov 2nd 2007 12:06PM
you all know this is super freaky. especially at times like these when people who hate you, create a friendster or mutliply account of you with your stolen picture and information. then anyone who takes interest in your face in public can get your personal information. lesson: dont get wired too much.
Labrat251Nov 2nd 2007 3:36PM
I would just like to point out that you can only be "found" through mugr.com if you have previously signed up for an account and uploaded an image of yourself. Mugr.com is an opt-in service.
JonNov 4th 2007 9:43PM
lol yeah you can only search for the person if they are on that site.
so 90% of this persons article is completely inaccurate and not even nearly factual.
PamelaNov 6th 2007 11:39AM
Okay so what, you just walk up to someone and take their picture and go to this website and upload it and try to find the person? Now what fool is going to just let you take their picture and they don't even know you? This sounds very ridiculous.