A new technology that lets you snap a picture of someone and pull up all their Internet information premiered recently. The technology named “Recognizr” scans your face and sends a 3d signature to a server, which then accesses a database which pulls all your social network profiles. Why anyone would make such a thing is the big question. As long as it’s here though we may as well make use of it eh? Next time you see a pretty girl on the bus, whip out this bad boy and get all her info, better than asking for a phone number right?

Seriously though, this technology is going to be the cause of all kinds of stalking, ID theft and even hacking. at what point does technology go too far?

See more details below along with a video.

Translation: My phone. Pointed at your face. Pulling your information. Stalking, meet your future?

Here’s how it works. Users opt in to the service and submit a photo to the computer-vision program, called Recognizr. If I point my phone at you, Recognizr scans your face, sends a 3-D model signature to a server which matches the face to a photo in its database, and sends back the name along with social media links, including your Facebook and Twitter account. Creeped out yet?

Sure, but I’m hardly alarmed. After all, it would be opt in and I don’t know anybody who would opt in. On smart phones, I can already access the Twitter feeds and Facebook profiles of people I know. That means that this app is uniquely designed to learn about strangers within my line of sigh who, in turn, want random strangers to look up their information. Talk about self-selection bias: the early adopting Recognizr family is going to be a cesspool of creeps and oversharers. I’m willing to hear arguments that I’m being a Luddite here, but this product seems too weird to contemplate.