Creepy cool Google app will identify faces of people you snap photos of

The service is already available in Picassa, but only for people you identify first by name, it will then try to find other photos on your hard drive of the same person (it's pretty cool). In this case, the app would let you snap a photo of someone on your phone and instantly find out who they are. But, there's a catch, only people who opt-in to be identified can be identified. And that's a good thing. Otherwise this would be a great way to stalk someone.

I love the idea. Can you imagine snapping pics of cute guys and women in bars? But the potential for abuse is pretty strong - how about you snap a picture of an anonymous profile on a dating site and find out that woman's REAL name? Lots of potential for abuse. But I recall reading before that other companies are working on the same technology and I doubt they'll be as responsible as Google. So it's only a matter of time before something, somewhere, goes horribly wrong.