Microsoft Knows Where Your Digital Camera Has Been

April 01, 2004 at 01:16 PM in

The World-Wide Media eXchange (WWMX) is an an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research. The WWMX is a centralized database of digital photos indexed by the geographic location where they were shot. There's a web demo as well as a downloadable client that allows you to search for photographs in the database by their address & location.

I just wish that another entity had thought of this. The thought of MSFT watching what I do from inside my operating system was one thing, giving them a way to watch me over my shoulder at the same time is another.