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Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently

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It’s a shame Hyperface has been delayed. I honestly look forward to the day when you see cyberpunks walking around with these on their faces and you can instantly recognize a kindred spirit, if not the identity of same. https://ahprojects.com/projects/hyperface/

When people start wearing these they will start being called that t word.

Sorry, what word?

Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently

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Which is why I do not want anybody to make any pictures of me, especially not if they are active on social media. There are exactly two pictures of me online, the one is 30 years old, the other about 10. The quickest way to get me pissed off is to point a camera at me.

I'm getting severe anxiety from having a camera pointed at me since this all Facebook stuff started and people posted pictures online. Needless to say, I don't have an account there. I also take off the moment I see a camera unless the shooter in advance ask me if it's ok and they agree to not put it online. Unfortunately I can't do anything about CCTV but that's not posted online at least. It's to the point where I…

> Needless to say, I don't have an account there.

You'd be surprised.

Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently

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I saw it in the app. So this is not accurate.

Was it a push notification? Or did you have to open the app to see it? It's silent unless there was a proactive message to you from Facebook that your face will start to be recognized. This facial recognition happens even when you're not using the app. So Facebook is waiting for you to take action before telling you anything. That is not proactive, it is silent. What if you don't go on Facebook any more but have an a…

It was directly inline at the top of my feed

Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently

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I'm getting severe anxiety from having a camera pointed at me since this all Facebook stuff started and people posted pictures online. Needless to say, I don't have an account there. I also take off the moment I see a camera unless the shooter in advance ask me if it's ok and they agree to not put it online. Unfortunately I can't do anything about CCTV but that's not posted online at least. It's to the point where I…

> Needless to say, I don't have an account there. You'd be surprised.

My combination of first and last name is unique. Only 23 people have the same last name and none of them have my first.

If I search for myself on facebook there are zero results. But there are probably photos of me on facebook in some form, that I don't doubt. I can't see all cameras..

Then there are the shadowaccounts they keep.

Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently

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So, here's the weird catch-22. Or perhaps, the illusion of choice. There are two people who are in a photo. One wishes Facebook to use face recognition, the other does not. Facebook will run face recognition on the photo regardless, but how will they know who wants to be recognized, and who doesn't? Simply, they have a model of your face already trained. And they recognize you in photos--you have no say whether or no…

Think about it this way: the photo itself already contains all the information necessary to identify you, and algorithms already exist which allow that information to be easily extracted. No privacy setting in the world will change that, short of the "delete" button on the photo itself (or maybe a way to blur your face). Therefore, this setting logically _cannot_ change what information Facebook has about you; it can…

If you have a book you certainly own all the information in it, but if you are never allowed to open the book and read its content (your brother wrote it but was then terribly embarrased about it and made you swear nobody would be allowed to read it) then how can you put the information to use?
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