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

Posted by msmash on from the next-up dept.

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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  1. Re:Effective as? by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Those can be useful too.

    FB: Someone uploaded this picture of you.
    You: That's not me.

    FB: Someone uploaded this picture of you.
    You: [ silence ].
    FB: Thank youuuu.

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  2. Oh no you're not... by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    1. Re:Oh no you're not... by GregMmm · · Score: 3, Informative

      Just one more reason not to be on Facebook...

    2. Re:Oh no you're not... by Baron_Yam · · Score: 3, Informative

      >my photos! (which they won't find because I'm not on facebook)

      You probably are. Someone else uploads a picture with you in it, your face gets tagged, then it gets linked to the shadow profile of you they already have. Maybe it's an out of date photo - an old school class photo or something.

      It's extremely evil from a privacy perspective and there is no will in the USA to do anything about it.

  3. Re:Doppelgangers? by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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