Age guessing with Microsoft is FUN! Now, your metadata please
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/01/microsoft_facial_recognition_age_estimation_metadata_harvesting/
"Microsoft has launched a metadata-slurping website powered by
user-uploaded pictures which pretends to be a fun age-guessing game.
While the page's inability to accurately guess users' ages might seem
an amusing cock-up on Redmond's part, the machine learning boffins who
set up the page are content to slurp up the JavaScript Object Notation
metadata of the photographs users are uploading, and process it to
advertise Microsoft's services. An invitation extended to the
internet-at-large to help Satya Nadella sell his services to all
comers has been duly answered by social media users, ever-keen to jump
on the new meme bandwagon as early as possible."
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--Lauren--
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