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Facebook considers adding profile photos to facial recognition
Reuters ^
| Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:17pm EDT
| Alexei Oreskovic
Posted on 08/29/2013 11:28:05 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Facebook Inc is considering incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members’ profile photos into its growing facial recognition database, expanding the scope of the social network’s controversial technology.
The possible move, which Facebook revealed in an update to its data use policy on Thursday, is intended to improve the performance of its “Tag Suggest” feature. The feature uses facial recognition technology to speed up the process of labeling or “tagging” friends and acquaintances who appear in photos posted on the network. …
The changes would come at a time when Facebook and other Internet companies’ privacy practices are under scrutiny, following the revelations of a U.S. government electronic surveillance program. …
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: facebook; facialrecognition; nsa; peterthiel; prism; profilephoto; surveillancestate; thiel
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Indeed; such great timing.
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:28:05 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Should it not be renamed “Sleaze-book”?
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:29:29 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: Olog-hai
If they add facial recognition, I’m changing my FB pic to a bare arse.
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:31:10 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:32:23 AM PDT
by
onyx
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To: Olog-hai
To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:36:47 AM PDT
by
onyx
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To: Olog-hai
Brought to you by the NSA and FBI!
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:37:32 AM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Olog-hai
reason # 725 I don’t use social media beyond FR and personal email. There’s already enough of my info out there.
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:39:06 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: Olog-hai
reason # 725 I don’t use social media beyond FR and personal email. There’s already enough of my info out there.
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:39:06 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: Olog-hai
I say everyone with a FB account, change their profile pics to George Washington...or one of the Founding Fathers.
Then those elites would not recognize us..... ;-P
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:39:23 AM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
("The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative." ~ Edward Abbey)
To: Olog-hai
They’re doing it already, I’d guess.
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:44:55 AM PDT
by
Fido969
To: Olog-hai
Jeez, and I thought it creepy when my former co-worker showed me a photo of his daughter and her friends, and all their names showed up in “related” photos, even on other pages...
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:46:56 AM PDT
by
Don W
(Know what you WANT. Know what you NEED. Know the DIFFERENCE!)
To: Olog-hai
And like lambs to the slaughter, the followers follow.. Facebook and Google are cover operations for the gov’t classifying as many individuals as possible for eventual separation into groups for recruitment or internment.
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:47:40 AM PDT
by
Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
(If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
To: Olog-hai
I’m sure it has already been done.
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:49:37 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: Lucky9teen
You be on the government top 10 terrorist list.
To: Olog-hai
I could be wrong but I suspect they are doing this under some duress from Big Brother.
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:52:22 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Olog-hai
It is most likely already done.
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:54:31 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
I’m sure it has already been done.
^Yeah that
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posted on
08/29/2013 11:59:21 AM PDT
by
ratzoe
(damn, I miss Barbara Olson)
To: Olog-hai
Good. They can take facially recognize that I am a polar bear on Facebook.
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:01:06 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: Olog-hai
This way no need for Mug Shot when the Government takes you away
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posted on
08/29/2013 12:01:16 PM PDT
by
molson209
(Hillary Clinton)
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