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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soon?

[sahuxley]

So, that mean the NSA has been able to do this for a decade or so?

Re:soon?

[Anonymous Coward]

So that's the reason why London and by extension the UK, has a CCTV camera at every major intersection...

Re:What's the problem?

[Sir_Substance]

No, I didn't.

Other people have been uploading and tagging me whether I like it or not, despite my not having an account.

So fuck you it's not been my decision, but I'll be copping the consequences. If I could burn down every data center facebook owned I'd do it in a second, no hesitation.

Re:Good think I don't use Facebook

[93 Escort Wagon]

There's no "probably" about it.

And that shadow account garbage was why I quit Facebook, for all the good it does. I have no illusions that they have any less of my data now than they did when I was a member... but at least I'm one fewer set of eyes to count as an impression on their auto-playing video ads.

Re: Cross-Dressers are people, too

[Anonymous Coward]

Rubbish.
Totally wrong.
Perhaps you might like to read about the 'Golden Number' (1.618)
http://www.goldennumber.net/facial-beauty-new-golden-ratio/

Makeup, glasses, facial hair are all defeated because of this number

I predict an increase in people wearing balaclavas and burka's. These really do beat the facial recognition devices but it ain't gonna work if you are in France.

Re:Show me my doppelgangers!

[pz]

I'd like to be able to ask Facebook:

"Out of all the hundreds of millions of Facebook users, which ones look the most like me?"

I'd rather ask, out of all those people which ones look like Mark Zuckerberg enough to pass for him at the corporate headquarters? Just to make a point.