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Facebook's New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' (wired.com)

Posted by msmash on from the yay-or-nay dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Facebook may soon ask you to "upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face," to prove you're not a bot. The company is using a new kind of captcha to verify whether a user is a real person. According to a screenshot of the identity test shared on Twitter on Tuesday and verified by Facebook, the prompt says: "Please upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face. We'll check it and then permanently delete it from our servers." The process is automated, including identifying suspicious activity and checking the photo. To determine if the account is authentic, Facebook looks at whether the photo is unique.

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  1. WHY? by tripleevenfall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do Facebook, Apple, and others thing public information (like what your face looks like) is more secure than a private key that exists only in your mind?

    1. Re:WHY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because they want to build a comprehensive and, more importantly, up to date image of what you look like for their facial recognition software.

      I'm sure there's some guy out there who gets a massive boner when he thinks about with one hi-res crowd shot of people they can pull sophisticated buying demographics to sell to advertisers.

    2. Re:WHY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Also they want your location data from photo so they can match you to nearby people.

      I wish there was an option to remove exif when uploading photos from album...

    3. Re: WHY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It wasn't the right wing that came up with the LGBTQI2SGMARHN+ concept. They aren't the ones pushing 87 different genders. They aren't the ones spending decades in college obsessing over race, and gender, and sexual preference, and other ways to classify people. The right wing is far less divisive than the left wing.

    4. Re: WHY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      the right just needs 2 groups. Rich White People and Everybody else

    5. Re: WHY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Nah, it's just the right wing constantly screaming about false flag operations, then getting caught staging them, whining about free speech while working hard to silence critics, posturing about family values while screwing their male prostitutes, railing against gays while ... oh, that one's already covered..., and on, and on, and on.

      The people who are obsessing over gender and a thousand separate pronouns? They're actually on the fringes of the left, and the rest of the left are kinda embarrassed by them. The nut cases on the right? THEY ARE IN CHARGE OF THE FREAKING COUNTRY.

    6. Re: WHY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Because lumping hundreds of millions of people under one label and then assigning specific traits to that group is a great idea, right? You dumb fucks on "either side" can't seem to understand basic goddamn fucking logic. All you dumb shits do is farm red herrings and manufacture straw men. Feminazis and religitards are both shitheads; you're just swimming in different flavored pools of mental feces while claiming your pool doesn't smell like rank sulfur-swirling ass gravy. The world would be a better place if all of you intellectually bankrupt ideologically blinded retards died in a very large yet very specific fire.

      Fuck you, fuck them, fuck it all.

      And just because Slashdot doesn't like it, I'm going to use the word nîggers. I loves my black people, but I hates my nìggas.

  2. Hi, we've lied repeatedly before but this time... by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Jeez.

    Facebook has been caught lying and engaging in dubious behavior dozens of times and the founder says you have no right to privacy (but zealously protects his own privacy).

    Wake UP!

    --
    She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
  3. Re:Obviously by omnichad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This. They're probably going to point a neural network at this face-fingerprint data and train their auto-tagger. Right now, bad lighting or an odd angle will throw off the automatic face recognition.

  4. Re:No thanks by Oligonicella · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because it contradicts whatever the Facebook group think is

    You left off the important part.

  5. Re:No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    do you actually believe that it was deleted? Its more likely that they move that information to a secondary database that isnt referenced by their forward database that the public version of facebook sees. After all they already have shadow profiles, what makes you think that they would just delete all of that succulent information on your self instead of transferring it to your shadow profile.

    I bet if you used the same email address to sign up again that your entire friends list from the previous account would be in suggested friends.

  6. Dear Facebook by nuckfuts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here is a recent photograph of my naked ass. Please apply lip marks and return it to me for verification.