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Is anyone concerned enough with their facebook profile security to want to be verified on this level? why not a normal 2fa? it seems like there is a hidden agenda behind collecting and analyzing users facial characteristics.
I'm sure the biometric data harvested from these pictures won't be abused by three letters agencies.
big brother zuckerbergThat’s not a captcha, that’s used when you’re locked out of your account and they need to verify if it’s you. Like when they ask for your ID card. I assume this only happens if you’ve uploaded pictures of yourself in the past, so they can compare them.
I mean you need to pick your poison here. You either give facebook more data to validate your authenticity or you allow botnets to influence the social networks. It seems impossible to have it both ways, although I'm willing to hear alternatives in the general case.
Many countries already have crypto-secure solutions for verifying their identity when submitting things like tax forms. Facebook just needs to start using them, but they won't, and it's obvious why.
So I don't get if this "captcha" process is automated or manual (...or both)? Somewhere else in the article it says that users are apparently locked out of their accounts until the pic is verified. Seems odd that there should be a lock-out period if the process is automated (as the first sentence of the above quote implies).
ALSO, for a captcha, isn't this dead easy for bots? Get a DeepDream/Generative Adversarial Network instance to generate faces for you. Bam. This is not a barrier.
I mean you need to pick your poison here. You either give facebook more data to validate your authenticity or you allow botnets to influence the social networks. It seems impossible to have it both ways, although I'm willing to hear alternatives in the general case.
Is anyone concerned enough with their facebook profile security to want to be verified on this level? why not a normal 2fa? it seems like there is a hidden agenda behind collecting and analyzing users facial characteristics.
Knowing fb, this is for their benefit, not the users i.e, they're trying to catch spammers and fake accounts, not see if you're the one accessing your own account or not.
They probably plan to use your facial profile for a number of things, none of which have to do with authenticating you to the Facebook website. I even see them sharing the profiles with the DHS to build more accurate facial recognition at airports, and other stuff like that. But of course they wouldn't admit it now, because it would mean everyone refusing to use it from day one.
No wonder Facebook's attempt at getting people to give them their credit cards to enable ecommerce on the platform has been such an utter failure. The most popular searches on Google on this issue are whether or not you can trust Facebook with your credit card data.
That's happening for a reason - Facebook has consistently tried to build a reputation of "shady-as-fuck" company throughout the years, and it's going to pay the price for it, either through stuff like people rejecting its ecommerce platforms, which means fewer billion-dollar monetization opportunities for Facebook in the long-term, or simply stopping using it when they get tired of the company's practices.