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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.
This is kind of like a pedophile saying he'll only feel up boys that have been abused already anyway.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Sure this is a sign of the end times. Up to this point their entire reason for existing was to get people to waste their time playing stupid games while their information was harvested for advertising. If facebook actually does something with actual faces this can only lead to terrible, terrible things.
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Yeah, I expect it to be as effective as Apple's face lock software. Expect false positives.
If they give you the option to block the photo, it could be very useful. You get notifications if someone tags you in a photo, but what if someone uploaded a less than flattering photo of you and doesn't tag it. An ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse or something like that which you might not see. If people have to approve photos of them before the photo got posted to a timeline, it might also help slow down the mass of info being posted.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
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.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Facebook's facial recognition is still not perfect. Every time I post a picture of my shih tzu's ass, it tags it as "Donald Trump".
You are welcome on my lawn.
I can't wait until I get notified by my doppelganger, who is a porn star. It's caused quite a bit of embarrassment when co-workers ask if that's me in the skin mags.
Marty Feldman is not a porn star.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Seriously: when are you all going to say 'enough is enough' and stop using Facebook?
The FBI has posted your picture on the most wanted list ...
has posted your picture in persons of interest.
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How long (or maybe it's happening already) before law enforcement dragoons Facebook into watching for people of interest and letting them know that a picture of any of those folks has just shown up, who posted it, metadata, etc.? This sounds way easier for the cops than setting up their own surveillance and face recognition systems.
Facebook is evil and everyone with a brain knows it.
Facebook was so invested in because its potential to break down society was realized by its big investors. It wasn't a shot in the dark with their billions of dollars. It wasn't a surprise that social media would transform our society. They knew what it was to become and it profits them immensely.
Why do they want to break down society? Because they want to increase the level of control they have. Instead of programming society on the scale of groups, they want to control every atom; every individual, and open up new roads to exponentially more power.
People always explain away things like this saying "well that's just what people want and the company is just giving them what they want and making money, so this isn't really bad, this is progress! There's no conspiracy! People are smart, they aren't so easily suckered into things! They know what's good!"
The thing is that people are actually not that picky. They will accept just about ANY given solution for their basic needs as long as authority backs it consistently enough. So it becomes a question of what exactly we are progressing towards and who's interest it really is in.
Humans are not some transcendent creature with the guarantee of self awareness and intellect and rationality because of how much inherently better they are than all other life on Earth. These are optional features supported by a certain way of life. If you take away the nuances from the human way of life, if you take away the culture that support these higher functions, people go into "backward compatibility mode"; they re-adapt to a simpler, savage, prehistoric world. Simply put they devolve.
While most people don't know themselves well enough to see this, there are people who know this about humanity, and they know about it deeply. These people are leaders.
Leaders either choose to try to raise people up to their own level of awareness or leaders choose to plunge people down so they can never rise up. Leaders choose either cooperation or enslavement.
Humans are tribal creatures. They are beyond racist. They are beyond nepotistic. They will kill members of their own families who displease them. Humans are not only genocidal by default, they a fratricidal by default.
We can see this at every point in our history. We can see this in our close relatives like the chimpanzee that continue to live a way of life that we departed from eons ago.
Leaders cooperate and enslave in degrees. The closer you are to directly supporting the substance of the leader, that is, the more you share in common with the leader that you align with that leader's will, the more cooperation you will receive. The further, the more enslavement you will receive, up to the point that when your interests drift sufficiently you are immediately killed or otherwise neutralized.
What this amounts to is simple: as time goes on you will only become more distant and unable to adapt to the leader. The leader's own will replace everyone else. Eventually you drift into the zone of no return in relation to a current leader and unless the leader changes, your line will end: you, your family, your children all die and there are no more children thereafter.
Usually this takes a long time, so long that the diverse interests in the world shift and leaders change and most tribes survive at least long enough to make a compromise and intermingle with the dominant tribe. But things are becoming unusual: power is being consolidated on unprecedented scales with unprecedented stability, and it is making ever more exacting demands on its subjects as their numbers swell to challenge the Earth's ability to sustain them.
Humanity's genocidal nature has risen to the surface.
This all sounds very grim, until you consider the fact we've been up and down this situation for millions of years and have some pretty good solutions to the pitfalls and the problems that lead to them.
All the machinery is in place for us to CHOOSE our own leaders. A
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Here is the kicker... APK hasn't changed at all personality wise in at least 18 years. Like he is the same nutcase he has always been.
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"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Yes.
Whether they send you a message through their system or via a postcard, they have to know the identity of the person with that particular face.
You could set up a fake identity and tag a few pictures of yourself with that ID. Facebook would then proceed to notify your fake persona whenever another photo of yourself was uploaded. As long as you have a method of checking your account from time to time without tripping over any tracking that could reveal your true identity, this could work.
Another trick you can use is to create a fake identity with either a common name, or better yet one you 'happen' to share with some celebrity. Any query on your identity would be swamped by returns of the more popular person. I know a guy who does this and it works quite well. Pick a name like Taylor Swift (this isn't the one he uses) and just try to find a picture of him online. How far down the responses will you have to scroll to find that 60 year old, out of work coal miner from Appalachia named Mr Swift?
Have gnu, will travel.
Admittedly, most facial recognition software has a very high failure rate for non-Caucasian subjects.
Don't believe me? Try seeing if your iPhone X can figure out the difference, or Facebook software. Dress two people with similar facial looks up with the same hairstyle and clothes and: Voila!
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Oh, honey that's great, more people are spying on us! : P
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so he can set up a facebook profile with the girl/woman he wants to stalk as a profile photo and then he get's notified when she appears in another photo?
What could possibly go wrong? I mean it's 100% clear that all persons want to identify with their real name...
Never post your face. Post a picture of a comic book, oops i meant to say "graphic novel", hero, an animal, a tree or some other item.
Avoid group photos which may end up on FB.
Have someone tag an incorrect image of you a few times, such as a pet, baby, incorrect ethnicity, etc. In other words misinformation.
GIGO. An algorithm fed incorrect data will not give correct results.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+