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Facebook Will Use Facial Recognition To Tell You When People Upload Your Picture (recode.net) 80

Posted by msmash from the next-up dept.
If someone uploads a photo of your face to Facebook, the company usually knows that it's you thanks to facial recognition technology. Now Facebook won't just know it's you -- it'll tell you about the photo, too. From a report: Facebook is expanding its use of facial recognition technology and will now alert people that a friend, or a friend of a friend, uploaded a photo of them, even if they haven't been tagged in the picture. If anyone uploads a profile picture that includes your face, Facebook will alert you of that, too. "We're doing this to prevent people from impersonating others on Facebook," the company wrote on its blog Tuesday.
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  • Pedophile (Score:2, Informative)

    by fluffernutter ( 1411889 )
    This is kind of like a pedophile saying he'll only feel up boys that have been abused already anyway.

    • Facebook notifying you that someone posted a picture of you - probably taken in a public area - is akin to a pedophile molesting abused boys?

      Your moral compass is seriously out of whack.

      • The pedophile part is Facebook feeling like they are entitled to help themselves to tracking pictures of our faces, even if we don't choose to participate. Agreed, it is an exaggeration but still, this practice is very, very, creepy. Maybe it's more like having someone on your block that peers through the blinds with binoculars and logs all the neighbor's comings and goings in a black notebook times A BILLION, but still I think most people got the idea. The 'molested before' part is the fact that Faceboo
  • Sure this is a sign of the end times. Up to this point their entire reason for existing was to get people to waste their time playing stupid games while their information was harvested for advertising. If facebook actually does something with actual faces this can only lead to terrible, terrible things.

    • That is a bit too late.... Oh wait I got it... Ha Ha...
      Facebook has been using face recognition for a while now. Hopefully this way I will be able to block my friends from seeing posts that different friends posted about me.

      Hey look it is me playing Miniature Golf with some friends. Now my other friends who I had turned down an invitation to go bowling that same day knows what I did.
      Now I need to explain myself vs. just going on as normal the next day.

  • Yeah, I expect it to be as effective as Apple's face lock software. Expect false positives.
  • If they give you the option to block the photo, it could be very useful. You get notifications if someone tags you in a photo, but what if someone uploaded a less than flattering photo of you and doesn't tag it. An ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse or something like that which you might not see. If people have to approve photos of them before the photo got posted to a timeline, it might also help slow down the mass of info being posted.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Actually you just fell into their trap: you confirming that the photo is you (or isn't you) is what they want. They don't care about you, but they want to improve their tracking. Congratulations.

    • You're already in control of who sees photos you're tagged in. You can chose to review them before release, as well. The photo will still be on Facebook, but your friends/girlfriend/whoever won't see that you're tagged in it, and unless they're friends with the poster, they won't see it at all.

      • You're already in control of who sees photos you're tagged in. You can chose to review them before release, as well. The photo will still be on Facebook, but your friends/girlfriend/whoever won't see that you're tagged in it, and unless they're friends with the poster, they won't see it at all.

        My point is that if someone posts your photo without your permission, it won't be seen at all by anyone, not just the poster's friends.

        • You're already in control of who sees photos you're tagged in. You can chose to review them before release, as well. The photo will still be on Facebook, but your friends/girlfriend/whoever won't see that you're tagged in it, and unless they're friends with the poster, they won't see it at all.

          My point is that if someone posts your photo without your permission, it won't be seen at all by anyone, not just the poster's friends.

          If you do not know the person and you photo bombed their photo with their friends, that is your problem not theirs. I doubt you will be able to block the photo from being posted if you just happen to be in a photo with other people.

  • Oh no you're not... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Oswald McWeany ( 2428506 ) on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:23PM (#55769691)

    We're doing this to prevent people from impersonating others on Facebook,

    That's a lie Facebook. You're doing it so that you can track people better. See if they have multiple accounts. Track who really knows who and who has been where. Etc.

    You're facemapping people so you can collect more data to sell. Don't tell porkies and claim it's to prevent impersonation. It's not. It's really not and we're not all stupid. You may "tack on" that functionality to make it sound more palatable, but you're really just being a big creepy stalker.

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by GregMmm ( 5115215 )
      Just one more reason not to be on Facebook...

      • "Just one more reason not to be on Facebook..."

        Actually you got that wrong.
        If you're not on FB, you'll never get a notice that people who _are_ on FB are posting pictures of you.

        It's a ploy to get all the paranoid people onto FB or at least 1 picture of them.

        • "Just one more reason not to be on Facebook..."

          Actually you got that wrong.
          If you're not on FB, you'll never get a notice that people who _are_ on FB are posting pictures of you.

          It's a ploy to get all the paranoid people onto FB or at least 1 picture of them.

          If someone wants to pretend to be a slightly overweight guy with yellowing teeth from excess coffee consumption, they're welcome to use my photos! (which they won't find because I'm not on facebook.)

          • Re:Oh no you're not... (Score:4, Informative)

            by Baron_Yam ( 643147 ) on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:58PM (#55769947)

            >my photos! (which they won't find because I'm not on facebook)

            You probably are. Someone else uploads a picture with you in it, your face gets tagged, then it gets linked to the shadow profile of you they already have. Maybe it's an out of date photo - an old school class photo or something.

            It's extremely evil from a privacy perspective and there is no will in the USA to do anything about it.

            • >my photos! (which they won't find because I'm not on facebook)

              You probably are. Someone else uploads a picture with you in it, your face gets tagged, then it gets linked to the shadow profile of you they already have. Maybe it's an out of date photo - an old school class photo or something.

              It's extremely evil from a privacy perspective and there is no will in the USA to do anything about it.

              Probably... but no user would be able to find enough photos of me to reliably pass themselves off as me. I'm sure a couple of photos of me may have found their way online (I avoid when possible) but not enough to create a fake persona.

          • Re: (Score:1)

            by Anonymous Coward

            which they won't find because I'm not on facebook

            Facebook keeps a shadow profile on you, whether you have signed up or not.

            They have also made a very good guess about your biometric identity. Other people upload pictures of you. Ever gone out to eat? Then a photo of you exists in Facebook, because diners commonly take phone photos and upload them. You're in multiple of those. Ever gone to a social event? Then Facebook has your picture. They have associated it with their shadow profile through analysis of social graphs.

            You are in FB whether you want

    • Anyone who uses facebook is asking to be abused.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AHuxley ( 892839 )
      To tell advertizers social media has real people and only real people on its lists.
      That tech is in place to find out if a person is real and is ready for a sales pitch.
      A quality herd of consumers to be sorted and sold to.
      The account with a face is the product been traded and sold, not user privacy been protected.

  • Facebook's facial recognition is still not perfect. Every time I post a picture of my shih tzu's ass, it tags it as "Donald Trump".

    • Facebook's facial recognition is still not perfect. Every time I post a picture of my shih tzu's ass, it tags it as "Donald Trump".

      Are you 100% sure your dog's arse isn't Donald Trump?

      • Are you 100% sure your dog's arse isn't Donald Trump?

        You just hurt Fluffy's feelings. I hope you're happy now.

  • Facebook, die, die, die (Score:3)

    by Rick Schumann ( 4662797 ) on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:38PM (#55769831) Journal
    Seriously: when are you all going to say 'enough is enough' and stop using Facebook?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by phfpht ( 654492 )
      11 years ago?
      Yeah. That's about when.

      This tech is really cool, but scary as hell in the wrong hands*

      *Wrong hands is here defined as anybody with or without hands.
    • For me, it's been a little over three years ago. Have not missed it at all.

  • The FBI has posted your picture on the most wanted list
      has posted your picture in persons of interest. ...

  • Must be a boon to law enforcement (Score:3)

    by John Jorsett ( 171560 ) on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:09PM (#55770017)
    How long (or maybe it's happening already) before law enforcement dragoons Facebook into watching for people of interest and letting them know that a picture of any of those folks has just shown up, who posted it, metadata, etc.? This sounds way easier for the cops than setting up their own surveillance and face recognition systems.

    • > This sounds way easier for the cops than setting up their own surveillance and face recognition systems

      Easier but not necessarily more effective. By building a federal law enforcement system they can do things like require municipal CCTV systems to do local scanning and forwarding of results as well. And airports, bus stations, customs, maybe major malls or amusement parks, maybe cameras at critical choke points on interstate highways, etc.. Then the feds let local law enforcement query against that

  • Facebook is evil and everyone with a brain knows it.

    Facebook was so invested in because its potential to break down society was realized by its big investors. It wasn't a shot in the dark with their billions of dollars. It wasn't a surprise that social media would transform our society. They knew what it was to become and it profits them immensely.
    Why do they want to break down society? Because they want to increase the level of control they have. Instead of programming society on the scale of groups, they

    • Has anyone read this guy's dissertation? And if you did, care to post a summary?

      • People are being brainwashed into stupid animals because the establishment is desperate to maintain itself but this time they control too much and we are all going to die if some one doesn't stop them before they collapse themselves

  • Admittedly, most facial recognition software has a very high failure rate for non-Caucasian subjects.

    Don't believe me? Try seeing if your iPhone X can figure out the difference, or Facebook software. Dress two people with similar facial looks up with the same hairstyle and clothes and: Voila!

  • Oh, honey that's great, more people are spying on us! : P

  • so he can set up a facebook profile with the girl/woman he wants to stalk as a profile photo and then he get's notified when she appears in another photo?

    What could possibly go wrong? I mean it's 100% clear that all persons want to identify with their real name...

  • Never post your face. Post a picture of a comic book, oops i meant to say "graphic novel", hero, an animal, a tree or some other item.

    Avoid group photos which may end up on FB.

    Have someone tag an incorrect image of you a few times, such as a pet, baby, incorrect ethnicity, etc. In other words misinformation.

    GIGO. An algorithm fed incorrect data will not give correct results.

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