Yet another reason to not use Facebook.
wait why?
Face.com acquired by Facebook
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#12I suspect Facebook has bigger plans for Face.com's technology than auto-tagging. I bet they integrate facial recognition technology into the Facebook Platform. Tagging every face... everywhere... and sending that data back to Facebook. That could be monumental.
Monumental or invasive? I personally fear for the latter.
Most likely both.
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#14Probably just for the domain.
This is incorrect. Read the entire post and realize that Facebook has been using Face.com's tech for facial tagging already.
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#15I suspect Facebook has bigger plans for Face.com's technology than auto-tagging. I bet they integrate facial recognition technology into the Facebook Platform. Tagging every face... everywhere... and sending that data back to Facebook. That could be monumental.
Monumental or invasive? I personally fear for the latter.
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#16Wow, I assumed that Face.com was a part of Facebook.com...their look and feel seemed like a front-facing spinoff of FB, to get developers more interested in the technology. Their API has been very generous and useful for all sorts of projects, but I'm sure this is going to freak privacy advocates even more...frankly, the connections/derivations FB could make with face recognition will not be any more comprehensive th…
Facebook has already been using facial recognition for some time. If anything it will just increase the success rate of their current approach.
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#17facebook really seems to be intent on becoming the world's largest photo-sharing site.
the question is: are they planning to transform that from "omg check out these crazy party pics" into "everything is photographed and we've identified everyone involved" variety?
it seems to me that the implications of this line of progress are incomprehensibly far-reaching...
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
wait why?
Perhaps due to the fact that automatic face detection is an invasion of privacy.
Now that you mention that, that's a good reason. Would it be possible for facebook to use this to build a database of photos of people's faces or facial features? I really don't like the sounds of that.
I apologize -- I really don't use any social media personally outside twitter on occasion.
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#20Probably just for the domain.
This is incorrect. Read the entire post and realize that Facebook has been using Face.com's tech for facial tagging already.
Though honestly, the domain is valuable too. Lots of people probably type in "face" expecting it to autocomplete, and it doesn't always.