Facebook Will Use Facial Recognition To Tell You When People Upload Your Picture (recode.net)

If someone uploads a photo of your face to Facebook, the company usually knows that it's you thanks to facial recognition technology. Now Facebook won't just know it's you -- it'll tell you about the photo, too. From a report: Facebook is expanding its use of facial recognition technology and will now alert people that a friend, or a friend of a friend, uploaded a photo of them, even if they haven't been tagged in the picture. If anyone uploads a profile picture that includes your face, Facebook will alert you of that, too. "We're doing this to prevent people from impersonating others on Facebook," the company wrote on its blog Tuesday.

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Oh no you're not...

[Oswald McWeany]

We're doing this to prevent people from impersonating others on Facebook,

That's a lie Facebook. You're doing it so that you can track people better. See if they have multiple accounts. Track who really knows who and who has been where. Etc.

You're facemapping people so you can collect more data to sell. Don't tell porkies and claim it's to prevent impersonation. It's not. It's really not and we're not all stupid. You may "tack on" that functionality to make it sound more palatable, but you're really just being a big creepy stalker.