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Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Serious 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?

I mean, they opted in (it's off by default) so I would think so.

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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"We are never ever ever getting back together." Facebook user base quoting 21 century poet laureate.

Hey you remember all those times we analyzed you photos, and those times we did things we said we wouldn't? We totally aren't going to do those now. We are "Meta" not the evil Facebook, trust us. "Meta" has never lied to you, right?

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Slightly off-topic but I deleted my Instagram yesterday. I was really holding out for one person who almost refuses to talk to me on any non-FB property but...oh well. I'm glad to be rid of it, but I can't shake that it's somewhat meaningless and I'll miss the many content creators I followed who have earned my business. I wonder if there's some way to follow them in a way not tied to my identity.

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Yet 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)

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Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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post #13

Slightly off-topic but I deleted my Instagram yesterday. I was really holding out for one person who almost refuses to talk to me on any non-FB property but...oh well. I'm glad to be rid of it, but I can't shake that it's somewhat meaningless and I'll miss the many content creators I followed who have earned my business. I wonder if there's some way to follow them in a way not tied to my identity.

There are several Facebook and Twitter proxies; perhaps there's an Instagram proxy with an RSS feed?

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Yet 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)

This is a corporate decision based on cold profit projections, and it affects FB users worldwide. Your local politics have little to do with that. This is about washing FB's image.

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Serious question: I kind of liked how Facebook found people in my photos. Is there room for such a feature in a privacy conscious world?

iOS does this on-device, you can access the SQLite database containing the metadata using libimobiledevice's ifuse(1).

https://libimobiledevice.org/

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