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Face.com acquired by Facebook
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Re: Face.com acquired by Facebook
#62Watch out, Book.com - you're next.
They're also considering acquisitions of f.com, k.com and aceboo.com.
Re: Face.com acquired by Facebook
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given the reactions to Facebook's past privacy debacles I would be surprised if they didn't allow people to opt out.
The problem is this: What if I don't have an account, but somebody still happens to tag my face with my name, for whatever reason? I know that this is mostly about facebook users, but seeing how much facebook spam I get trying to incite me to join in, I could totally see them go this route - Encourage people to tag friends who aren't on facebook and thus give those friends no other choice but to claim their identity.
This already happens. When someone goes to your neighbors and asks around about you, your neighbors probably spill everything they know about you immediately. (If not immediately, a little story about an "ongoing investigation" should push them over the edge.) It's going to work the same way on the Internet. It's a little scary, but I prefer to think about the good applications rather than the bad applications. Having realtime facial recognition at conferences, for example, would make my life a lot easier.
Re: Face.com acquired by Facebook
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, they just have to store the fact that you don't want your account to be tagged in other people's photos. Of course that doesn't stop people from tagging as your name (not linked to your account) or a variation of it, but that's a losing battle. Actually they already allow you to opt out of the facial recognition feature: "Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?" ("Friends" or "No one…
Even if they don't tag you (as in, it showing up publicly), FB can still store whether or not you're there.
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Re: Face.com acquired by Facebook
#65Looks more like Facebook bought the company for the domain name. What's next? book.com?
Re: Face.com acquired by Facebook
#66This is more vague than "support our service":
> We love you guys, and the plan is to continue to support our developer community. If there are new developments you can expect to hear from us here, on the developer blog, and through our developer newsletter.
I think the vague wording is probably intentional. It doesn't seem like the sort of service that facebook would be into providing directly to developers.
Re: Face.com acquired by Facebook
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with you. But I think the majority of fb users would disagree.
Why do you say that? It seems like a generally unwanted feature. At most I'd think most fb users won't notice or care.
If it's true, a notification would have been nice. Or changing the setting back only for people who haven't specifically looked at and increased their privacy settings in the past
Re: Face.com acquired by Facebook
#68"Drop the book. Just Face. It's cleaner."
But seriously, facial recognition is a useful feature to save folks time trying to tag people with names in every photo. Also helps with discovering new people you want to meet. And yes of course it could be used for "evil" both by Facebook and the government. But that's true of any other technology, so arguably a wash.
Re: Face.com acquired by Facebook
#69This marks the beginning of a new era of facial recognition in social media, which is essentially a labour saving innovation so that you won't have to spend all that time tagging your facebook photos. Instead, you'll spend all that time untagging them.
I recently discovered that Facebook had decided to remove my 'must approve when I am tagged' - nothing incriminating, just reminders of their abuse.
They do this all the time and it's infuriating. I recently noticed that my contact email had been updated to an @facebook.com email address and my normal @gmail.com contact email had been set to hidden.