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Facebook's Broad Patent On Digital Media Tagging

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the keep-cashing-the-checks dept.

bizwriter writes "Facebook has done well with the Friendster patents and patent applications that it acquired. Just last week, a patent application for passing personal info between users based on degrees of separation became public. Now, thanks to the Friendster IP purchase, Facebook pretty much owns the technology for publicly identity-tagging digital media of any sort in a database."

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  1. bullshit by jsepeta · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been tagging people in photos in iphoto for years.

    but we've been zucked.

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