Emotion recognition software

[AncientLight]

http://singularityhub.com/2014/01/19/with-emotion-recognition-algorithms-computers-know-what-youre-thinking/

This can't be legal. Ebay has been using this for a while, and so have other sites. Now from what I understand this can only work with a webcam. So how has ebay been using this without people's consent? I doubt anyone would consent to this at least. This should be illegal IMO!

Now off course since like most people I have become wary of unused webcams, so mine is always covered with a bandaid. But only since a few months, so before that I was perhaps being watched without me knowing. What do you guys think ?

[Nighthawk9653]

I think it's scary. Machines and computers being able to figure us out, and know how we're feeling? That's just downright creepy.

But I taped a piece of cardboard over my webcam, so there's no chance of them filming me