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by pbburrell 5271 days ago
I don't think it's very true at all. From what I've read, PhotoDNA is used to detect child pornography by comparing a photograph's "hash" against a database of hashes for known pornographic images. There's no facial recognition involved.

More here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2564235