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Facebook turned on face recognition silently

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Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently

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Post by cryptoz »

More than a decade ago Mark Zuckerberg said that anyone who gave him a photo of themselves was a "dumb fuck". His entire plan this whole time has been to do exactly this kind of thing (edit: because he thinks it is profit-maximizing), and he thinks you're a dumb fuck (just like me) for uploading your photo to let him use in the maximum-scary-surveillance way.

We should all just get off Facebook. The problem is that you can't leave even after you "delete" your account, and they have your photos tagged and matched to your email even if you never signed up anyway since all your "dumb fuck" friends gave Mark Zuckerberg their email passwords too - so even if you never sign up, your friends already ratted you out and gave up your email and photos anyway.

Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently

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Post by tempodox »

jugg1es wrote: post #2

The 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.

Surveillance becoming opt-in on sites that monetize surveillance is rather unlikely.

Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently

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Post by 8note »

mrtksn wrote: post #10
jugg1es wrote: post #2

The 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.

I got it from mbasic.facebook.com

Re: Facebook turned on face recognition silently

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Post by mmjaa »

codemac wrote: post #13
antoncohen wrote: post #7

I 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.

Mine was the same, it was already set to off.

Can't find it in my Facebook settings - can you give us a pointer where to find these settings in Facebooks cesspool of anti-patterns they like to promote as the "settings" page...
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