According to a Washington Post article, Google's picture storage/database is able to recognise faces... and doing that automatically for all pictures stored in its database.

 

Did Google finally become the world's most evil company? It knows an awful lot about us already, and now it also knows what we look like.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090200873.html

Now we just wait for a Google military application and then it's Skynet time.

I knew it! I told everybody google was evil - now all we have to do is wait for someone to take the google chrome source and make another browser, then we shall RISE AGAINST!

But I'm starting to like this browser soooo...