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Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Post by Jenk »

paxys wrote: post #27
mminer237 wrote: post #15

I get all the privacy concerns, but this was actually super useful for people who opted-in. Manually retyping everybody's name when tagging them in 50 photos from an event is torturous.

Who opted in? I certainly don't remember ever doing it, yet auto tagging has always worked for me (both when I am tagging pictures and when others are tagging me).

> Who opted in?

It was one of those "by continuing to use our service(s), you are opting-in" t&C's updates.

So in short: nobody did but legally there is a box ticked.

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Post by bdamm »

tmountain wrote: post #5
AuthorizedCust wrote: post #2

Serious question: I kind of liked how Facebook found people in my photos. Is there room for such a feature in a privacy conscious world?

Subjective answer: Any data that has the potential for abuse regarding privacy will eventually find its way to being abused. Providing said feature requires curating the dataset necessary to power it. How can we trust companies beholden to quarterly earnings to do the right thing when financial motivations inform 100% of their actions? We can't.

Unless regulation is brought, they're going to do it anyway. The companies are absolutely going to be doing facial recognition and use that data, they just will be doing it without exposing the use of it to us.

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Post by laurent92 »

xupybd wrote: post #4

They are finally realizing that they're scaring people away.

2021 is the “let’s bring back normal stuff” year, after Apple restored USB, HDMI, Magsafe ports and the F1 keys ;)

What next, moving back from the Cloud, data ownership, Youtube having chronological ordering instead of “We chose what you should watch because we want to influence your political opinions” ???

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Post by slownews45 »

It's always confusing to see what the internet police go after.

Total scams ripping thousands to hundreds of thousands off from people (tech support scams etc). Crickets.

An opt in feature on the facebook platform that is useful (at least to some). Multiple Attorney General press conferences :)

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Post by jcun4128 »

slownews45 wrote: post #35

It's always confusing to see what the internet police go after. Total scams ripping thousands to hundreds of thousands off from people (tech support scams etc). Crickets. An opt in feature on the facebook platform that is useful (at least to some). Multiple Attorney General press conferences :)

There's Jim Browning for that

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Post by mminer237 »

mathgladiator wrote: post #22
mminer237 wrote: post #15

I get all the privacy concerns, but this was actually super useful for people who opted-in. Manually retyping everybody's name when tagging them in 50 photos from an event is torturous.

Yes, but why tag people?

So they can see themselves in photos? So you don't have to look through all of your friends' photos to find which ones you are in and repost them yourself.

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Post by cute_boi »

asdff wrote: post #24

Why would they? I bet most users actually like that facebook finds their face in friends photos.

Its probably because Facebook finally realized when government etc ask for data they need to give them otherwise you know ....... Also this is also good opportunity to green wash. It doesn't make a single dent on their ad revenue so why even gather more hate by doing some futile task?

Re: Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system

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Post by mkl95 »

> We need to weigh the positive use cases for facial recognition against growing societal concerns, especially as regulators have yet to provide clear rules.

Disclaimer: I have never owned an Apple product, and I haven't used Facebook for roughly a decade.

Apple have been doing face recognition for a while now, arguably at a similar scale, but their use case is pretty straightforward. With FB face recognition is not the real concern, it's the fact they have been caught misusing personal data multiple times.

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