Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo

sciencehabit writes Appear in a photo taken at a protest march, a gay bar, or an abortion clinic, and your friends might recognize you. But a machine probably won't — at least for now. Unless a computer has been tasked to look for you, has trained on dozens of photos of your face, and has high-quality images to examine, your anonymity is safe. Nor is it yet possible for a computer to scour the Internet and find you in random, uncaptioned photos. But within the walled garden of Facebook, which contains by far the largest collection of personal photographs in the world, the technology for doing all that is beginning to blossom.

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not only have Facebook been doing this for a while

[ihtoit]

but Google have also recently taken to autotagging faces in photos you upload to G+.

Incidentally, a 2013 report from the ITC says that you are 6 times more likely to have your bank account emptied by an identity thief via data taken from Facebook than you are to be the victim of a house burglary. http://blog.identitytheftcounc...

I hate it when I'm right. AGAIN.

Re:I don't think this is really true.

[ihtoit]

I've got facial recognition software running on my netbook. It really is not that difficult to get hold of some very sophisticated shit. It even has the capability of reducing any face to a photofit string.

If you're thinking "Bullshit!", let me throw some titles past you that a: I use for facial recognition features and b: I consider worth mentioning because they actually work (for some metric of "work" which for me is "enough to differentiate between 60 million individuals").

Windows Live Photo Gallery
Google Picasa
DigiKam
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Sony Picture Motion Browser
AmCap
IrfanView
OpenCV
EvoFIT
E-FIT
Faces LE (Law Enforcement edition)

(those last three are compositors, I do use them to reduce found faces to photofit strings - they're much easier to index that way).

Re:What's the problem?

[markass530]

you are very, very confused about how facebook and its tagging system works