Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system
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Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system
#2Serious question: I kind of liked how Facebook found people in my photos. Is there room for such a feature in a privacy conscious world?
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#3Insert meme of History Channel Aliens guy (is such a thing possible)
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#4They are finally realizing that they're scaring people away.
Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system
#5Serious question: I kind of liked how Facebook found people in my photos. Is there room for such a feature in a privacy conscious world?
Subjective answer: Any data that has the potential for abuse regarding privacy will eventually find its way to being abused. Providing said feature requires curating the dataset necessary to power it. How can we trust companies beholden to quarterly earnings to do the right thing when financial motivations inform 100% of their actions? We can't.
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#6Serious question: I kind of liked how Facebook found people in my photos. Is there room for such a feature in a privacy conscious world?
You need to ask the other question: Do they like it when HB tags them in yours and everyone else's photos?
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#7They are finally realizing that they're scaring people away.
..after the Horse has bolted!
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#8> The change affects more than a third of Facebook’s daily users who had facial recognition turned on for their accounts, according to the company.
I'm surprise the number is that low. Wasn't enabling this a default?
> That meant they received alerts when new photos or videos of them were uploaded to the social network. The feature had also been used to flag accounts that might be impersonating someone else...
That's actually a pretty valuable and legitimate use case for such a system, even from a very pro-privacy perspective.
> Although Facebook plans to delete more than one billion facial recognition templates, which are digital scans of facial features, by December, it will not eliminate the software that powers the system, which is an advanced algorithm called DeepFace. The company has also not ruled out incorporating facial recognition technology into future products, Mr. Grosse said.
It's also almost certainly not going to delete the face-specific image tagging either, which means they could re-derive everything they're "deleting" relatively easily.
Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system
#9Yet another useful technology going away because the activist media threw a five year temper tantrum over Trump being elected (which was mostly their fault in the first place)
Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system
#10a step in the right direction. that said, i closed my facebook in 2008 and i never missed it.