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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. No thanks by Arkham · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I get closer and closer to deleting Facebook permanently every day.

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  2. Clash of the bots... by Freischutz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm going to enjoy seeing that thing clash with this one: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

  3. Facebook closed my account over this by cstacy · · Score: 5, Interesting
    My FB account had about six "friends" on it: immediate family members. Didn't ever post anything or upload any information, just looked at photos they posted, pressed Like sometimes, and occasional IMs. I got this "upload a photo" roadblock, although it also said it was going to compare it to my Profile photo to make sure it was me. I didn't have any Profile photo, of course, so that's bullshit. Tried logging in three more times over the course of three weeks. Yesterday tried again, but the account has gone from suspended to terminated.

    They said it was for "suspicious activity". (Of which of course there was none.)
    I say it was because I failed to upload content for them to monetize.
    Interesting business decision.

  4. Take a photo of the chic your stalking by wolfheart111 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Then upload it to facebook and get access to the account? Is that how this works?

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  5. Re:WHY? by religionofpeas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And in this case, FB isn't interested in adding security to your account, they just want a new way to prove that it is a person behind the account instead of a robot. Nothing to do with security.

    We're already at the point where a computer can generate unlimited artificial faces that are good enough to fool such a system:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    I guess it has nothing to do with security, but rather with building a database of people, or analyzing your facial features and linking them to your preferences.

  6. Re:WHY? by e_pluribus_funk · · Score: 1, Interesting

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

    With "they" being US intelligence agencies.