Posted on 03/14/2017 12:01:29 PM PDT by JOAT
A facial recognition app that can identify strangers from a photograph has been created by a British entrepreneur.
Facezam can identify people by matching a photo of them with their Facebook profile. All users have to do is take a picture of someone on the street and run it through the app, which will tell them who it thinks the person in the photo is.
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Just wondering how that works...do they have their own image database harvested from of all pics on FB (must be in the billions)? And FB allows that to happen? Or do they piggy-back onto FB through some FB account? Again, would FB allow that to be done? How long does it take to go through a billions-of-images database anyway? Color me skeptical.
OR he would be a front man of someone who already does.
Third possibility, this is all BS. (So it can be safely ignored.)
Any takers at $17.60 each?
Fast and brings up a large number of results.
I’m going with you, JOAT, on this (my initial hunch anyway): BS scam. Someone looking for a big $$$ buyout, perhaps. I’m not on FB, for the record, so I don’t *really* care.
From the Facebook TOS (terms of service) agreement, pay special attention to the statements below after the text breaks, I added the breaks for emphasis:
2.Sharing Your Content and Information
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition: 1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content),
you specifically give us the following permission,
subject to your privacy and application settings:
you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License).
This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account
unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer.
However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
Many do. Take one of my nieces for example. She photoshopped her face thinner and put it on Facebook. She's about 250 pounds and under 5 foot tall. But it's her face, although slimmer than the real one. Now in her mid-40's, unmarried and having trouble getting dates.
I wonder why that would be.
Just got hired actually. Since I work in IT with emphasis in cybersecurity for banks, most employers understand why I don’t have a profile and why I have taken extra steps to reduce my Internet presence.
Perhaps you care to elaborate on your comment? Or at least explain why you felt the need to resort to name calling as your first response and comment?
There is hope. A nephew of mine, thin as a rail, married a heavy woman who was probably 300 pounds. At the wedding, I took a turn dancing with her. My relatives said half the time when they couldn't see me on the dance floor with her they thought she ate and swallowed me. The marriage only lasted one year before the divorce. Love wasn't enough to overcome the fat.
As for the niece (not a sibling of above mentioned nephew), her last date was a bartender. Guess he left her without returning for another date, after he got sober.
Thought I was the only one with an alias FB profile. Lol. My pic is a glass of wine. Maybe they can identify the type.
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