Facebook turned on face recognition silently
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Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently
#2The fact that they notified you means it wasn't exactly silent. I saw this notification and turned it off. I wish it hadn't been opt-out and had been an opt-in thing instead.
Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently
#3Not really silent, right? Unless you meant there was no press coverage about the feature.
Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently
#4"This setting is on, but you can turn it off any time, which applies to features we may add later".
Note the features we may add later part. Facebook is getting creepier by the day.
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#5So link surveillance cameras to the Facebook face recognition and cell phone location data of users and law enforcement will be so much easier.
A law enforcement json API
Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently
#6Not really silent, right? Unless you meant there was no press coverage about the feature.
They silently asked for your consent. As-in, they didn't. The feature is opt-out, with their interests first, and your privacy and consent second.
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#7I got nearly the same notification, except mine defaulted to off, it said "This setting is off, but you can turn it on any time".
My guess is that they based the setting on another setting. For example there was some photo tagging thing added years ago, and I disabled that. Most of my timeline and tagging settings are set to Custom or require review.
Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently
#8So link surveillance cameras to the Facebook face recognition and cell phone location data of users and law enforcement will be so much easier. A law enforcement json API
As Facebook's user rate declines, I genuinely believe they'll start generating larger and larger revenue from this exact thing.
A majority of the population's data is already there, they can survive for decades by renting out that data.
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#9This has always been active ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently
#10The fact that they notified you means it wasn't exactly silent. I saw this notification and turned it off. I wish it hadn't been opt-out and had been an opt-in thing instead.
There's no notification unless you visit Facebook.com, that I no longer do regularly.