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Facebook's New 'Face Recognition' Feature
Disclaimer: Many of you already know how I feel about facebooook. If you disagree with this new feature, make sure you update your profile...and hope that can stop 'el diablo.' The Electronic Privacy Information Center said yesterday that it will file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about Facebook Inc.’s use of facial-recognition technology. “When you or a friend upload new photos, we use face recognition software . . . to match your new photos to other photos you’re tagged in,’’ Justin Mitchell, a Facebook engineer, said in a Facebook blog. “We group similar photos together and, whenever possible, suggest the name of the friend in the photos.’’ Source: http://www.boston.com/business/techn...gets_facebook/ Additional articles: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/te...9facebook.html http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technolog...-privacy-upset http://www.pcworld.com/article/22974...is_creepy.html |
Meh, doesn't really bother me. I just disabled the ability for my face to be suggested. It DOES make tagging a little easier.
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For the record, face recognition technology isn't new but having it used by facebook (and any other Internet source, particularly one that is merely a social network) is creepy. I do appreciate facebook being straightforward about using this technology--for whatever reason they are being straightforward. |
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I don't see the need for an aversion to convenience. No harm done, so why avoid it? None of this stuff is new and it will only become more commonplace as time marches on. Fear or aversion to "new" isn't going to stop it, that's for sure. My view is that it's better to learn how to live with it on my terms than to avoid it completely and be behind the majority when it comes to knowing how to handle this sort of technology. |
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As an aside: There are people who claim to be intentionally uploading photos of nonhumans and tagging them so the face recognition can "get confused." |
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How do you change your settings?
NVM, found it: Account > Account Settings > Privacy > Customize Settings > Things Others Share and disabling "Suggest photos of me to friends," Mine was already disabled. Of course, this doesn't stop Facebook from using the facial recognition on you, it just stops friends from being able to autotag. |
Tagged by a stranger?
This reminds me of something odd that happened a couple of weeks ago. I received a notification that someone whose name I didn't recognize had tagged a picture of me on facebook. I logged on to look at it, and sure enough, it was a picture from college of me and three other people, only one of whom I remember ever meeting. The name of the only other person tagged was the same as the person who had tagged me (not the person that I recognized. I am not fb friends with that person, either). I untagged it because I didn't particularly like the picture and frankly, it creeped me out to have been tagged by someone I didn't know. Does anyone know how a person can be tagged by someone who is not their "friend"?
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My friend A, who I tagged in a photo of mine, tagged his friend B in the same photo. I'm not FB friends with her. That's probably what happened. Even if the person you know did the tagging, it might have come up differently when it notified you since it was the other person's photo.
(This is a very confusing few sentences.) I thought FB apologized for sneaking this in and said they were going to get rid of it. |
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After reading azgz's post, I checked my settings, and they are set to not allow facial recognition. It said that only your fb friends can tag you, but that's not what happened in my case. Strange. |
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I quite like it, because I like to know where all the pictures of me are
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I do that all the time! :p I was wondering why my FB was "suggesting" people for me to tag. Yeah, me no likey. It gives too much leeway for being tagged in the wrong photo, like Alumiyum said. If someone who looks like me is tagged in a photo of her half-naked and dancing on a table, I don't want the chances of my name being inserted to increase. People mistakenly tag me in photos enough without the feature. |
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