Guys, help me. Every time I see something like this I think "cool thing!", but I also start thinkin about new ways someone will start to track me down.
Seriously, my paranoid level has never been so high.
Not too paranoid, considering the front page of this project says "OpenBR is a collaborative research project started by The MITRE Corporation". What is MITRE?
http://www.mitre.org/work/intel.html : Just about all of MITRE's engineering and science disciplines are involved with improving our sponsors' intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) activities.
If it makes you feel any better, their publication[1] reports low accuracy on a popular dataset called LFW (which stands for Labelled Faces in the Wild). Most face recognition technology works very well on mugshots. Frontal Faces -- with almost consistent lighting and alignment. These technologies do not perform well on personal photos.
Paranoia can be a symptom of growing or oncoming depression. You should take that seriously: At least take a few days off and try to get a feel for your current mental state.
http://www.mitre.org/work/hs_sedi/ : Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute—or HS SEDI ...
http://www.mitre.org/work/intel.html : Just about all of MITRE's engineering and science disciplines are involved with improving our sponsors' intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) activities.