Polar Rose is a very interesting, if not potentially troubling, technology which allows for people to tag the faces of their friends and then share this data with others.
Certainly there is much talk about youth being less concerned with identity issues online.
But being an old-fashioned, decrepit old-timer at the no-longer-hip old age of 37, I'm not so cool having people I don't know be able to identify me because I showed up in some photo. Whether those photos come from "flickr, 23, Kodak gallery, or any other website" 1. Or, pray tell, some public camera on a street somewhere.
My friend Kate who first announced this on her blog, counseled that while paranoia may be a good thing, others have dealt with the PII issue quite adequately.
So I wrote an email to the CEO of Polar Rose, asking him to wade in on how they plan to deal with the potential PII issues. Or if PII was even pertinent.
In today's world of public exposure, one of the growing challenges and fears for us older-timers is how we control our personally identifiable information.
My face is one thing I consider to be PII (Personally Identifiable
Information). Mostly when tagged with my name.
I'm sure this is something you have contemplated. I would love to find out how Polar Rose expects to deal with this issue. "
So then I waited for a couple of days. To no avail. No response.
So now I have to ask Nicholaj in public. Maybe you will have better luck than me? His email is given publicly on their site as: nikolaj[aT]polarrose[dOt]com
Maybe it's a hoax? Maybe I'm just paranoid?
1 source: polar rose website: http://www.polarrose.com/
UPDATED: I've received an email and a comment from Nikolaj.
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