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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: 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.

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

    because it contradicts whatever the Facebook group think is

    You left off the important part.

  4. 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.