Undocumented Facebook API to identify friends in photos

Post by jey » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 6:18 PM UTC

tedmiston wrote: post #10

gcr wrote: post #2

Yup yup! This was the screenscraping technique we used to turn Facebook into an automatic face detector: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04504 It's a giant pain to screenscrape this using 'curl'. If I recall correctly, the bounding box coordinates I wanted are set as CSS properties inside inline HTML sent to the client wrapped up in a Javascript string literal as part of Javascript served to the client as the result of an…

I'd really like to read your paper. Everywhere I've found it referenced has a paywall. Is the full text freely available anywhere?

Post by danielmorozoff » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

gcr wrote: post #2

Yup yup! This was the screenscraping technique we used to turn Facebook into an automatic face detector: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04504 It's a giant pain to screenscrape this using 'curl'. If I recall correctly, the bounding box coordinates I wanted are set as CSS properties inside inline HTML sent to the client wrapped up in a Javascript string literal as part of Javascript served to the client as the result of an…

Post by sillysaurus3 » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

tedmiston wrote: post #10

gcr wrote: post #2

Yup yup! This was the screenscraping technique we used to turn Facebook into an automatic face detector: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04504 It's a giant pain to screenscrape this using 'curl'. If I recall correctly, the bounding box coordinates I wanted are set as CSS properties inside inline HTML sent to the client wrapped up in a Javascript string literal as part of Javascript served to the client as the result of an…

I'd really like to read your paper. Everywhere I've found it referenced has a paywall. Is the full text freely available anywhere?

Post by fapjacks » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 7:15 PM UTC

Animats wrote: post #9

tokenizerrr wrote: post #4

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It's not that bad. > I found this API has a limitation it only suggests people in the photo who are in your FB friend list

Right. That's Facebook's compromise on privacy. EPIC is suing them over even that.[1] Face.com did facial recognition on Facebook with no limits back in 2010.[2] Then Facebook bought them and killed the broad face recognition.[3] There are other face recognition companies now, but they're keeping a lower profile about how broad their database is. Except for Findface[4] in Russia. They loaded up the entire photo datab…

Post by hk__2 » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 7:46 PM UTC

beatpanda wrote: post #5

tokenizerrr wrote: post #4

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It's not that bad. > I found this API has a limitation it only suggests people in the photo who are in your FB friend list

Yeah, OK, now think about the version Facebook (and thus law enforcement, intelligence agencies and advertisers) has access to.