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Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by felsunseg(m): 8:04am On Jun 27, 2015
felsunseg:
Privacy on Facebook has always been controversial and its latest artificial intelligence algorithm will not be an exception. Facebook’s artificial intelligence team is testing out an algorithm that can recognize people in photos even if they are not looking at the camera.
According to New Scientist, the algorithm is able to identify people by reviewing hairdos, clothing, postures and body shapes. Facebook’s head of artificial intelligence Yann LeCun used CEO Mark Zuckerberg as an example of how the algorithm recognizes fashion preferences since he is known for always wearing a gray T-shirt. Using 40,000 public photos from Flickr, the artificial intelligence team tested the algorithm on photos of people whose faces are visible and photos of people that are looking away. As of right now, the
experimental algorithm is able to identify people with 83% accuracy. Facebook recently presented the experimental algorithm at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Boston. Earlier this month, Facebook released a mobile app called Moments. Moments groups photos based on the date of an event you attended with your friends and based on your friends themselves. Once the photos are grouped, you can privately message each batch to your friends. This keeps collections of photos unified between friends, which can be handy when taking photos with a group of friends at a dance club or a wedding. I tested out the app and it is fairly accurate.

It was able to recognize all of my Facebook friends correctly, but the app mistook me for another family
member.

Facebook’s facial recognition technology has beencontroversial since it launched and was banned in Europe five years ago.
Since Facebook does not have an opt-in mechanism for Moments, the app will not be released in Europe yet. LeCun pointed out that this new artificial intelligence technology can be helpful for people that are cautious about privacy.
Hypothetically, this tool could be used to alert someone if a photo of themselves is uploaded to the Internet. If the photo is embarrassing, then it might be worth tweaking your privacy settings or requesting the photo to be taken down.

What are your thoughts about Facebook’s new
algorithm? Do you think it is a privacy violation? Let meknow in the comments section!

Source: www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2015/06/23/facebook-is-now-able-to-recognize-you-without-even-seeing-your-face/
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by Tbillz(m): 8:06am On Jun 27, 2015
Demonic branded technology...... Making social networking look easier day by day till Facebook chips are installed in the body.
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by piicity(m): 8:06am On Jun 27, 2015
Zukerberg to gara
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by natas22: 8:10am On Jun 27, 2015
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by Minet16(m): 8:11am On Jun 27, 2015
Technology never stops to amuse me, this kind of Technology should be adopted by the military or the police to catch criminals. People on Facebook are supposed to enjoy privacy.



#@MINET16
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by Nobody: 8:12am On Jun 27, 2015
cyber madness is when a psycho claims to know you without






seeing b4 and u like "oh rily". But dnt forget he has bought many websites database and got over 2bilion pple pics attached to their ip.
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by theSpark(m): 8:41am On Jun 27, 2015
That's why I try to upload as few pictures online as possible.
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by felsunseg(m): 2:58pm On Jun 27, 2015
theSpark:
That's why I try to upload as few pictures online as possible.
bros even if u turn your side or back to the camera it will surely dectect who u are.
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by felsunseg(m): 3:06pm On Jun 27, 2015
Luedave:
cyber madness is when a psycho claims to know you without seeing b4 and u like "oh rily". But dnt forget he has bought many websites database and got over 2bilion pple pics attached to their ip.
that is why facebook is trying to have their own prrivate url/internent server and not the www developed by Tim Berners-lee a former employee of CERN so as to ensure the safety of their data base.
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by felsunseg(m): 3:10pm On Jun 27, 2015
Minet16:
Technology never stops to amuse me, this kind of Technology should be adopted by the military or the police to catch criminals. People on Facebook are supposed to enjoy privacy.
#@MINET16
Facebook has already creat an app that help you to automatically arrange the pics you snap especially during ceremony. It can arrange the one with ur family in one place, nd ur own in one place and ur friend own in another folder, its so amazing.
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by felsunseg(m): 3:16pm On Jun 27, 2015
Minet16:
Technology never stops to amuse me, this kind of Technology should be adopted by the military or the police to catch criminals. People on Facebook are supposed to enjoy privacy.



#@MINET16
the name of the app is call moments.
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by SortCode(m): 3:37pm On Jun 27, 2015
What does he stands to gain from this
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by felsunseg(m): 3:52pm On Jun 27, 2015
SortCode:
What does he stands to gain from this
it's just the everyday competition between facebook, apple and google
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by Minet16(m): 3:52pm On Jun 27, 2015
felsunseg:

Facebook has already creat an app that help you to automatically arrange the pics you snap especially during ceremony. It can arrange the one with ur family in one place, nd ur own in one place and ur friend own in another folder, its so amazing.


Om dude, I'll check it out.




#@MINET16
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by SortCode(m): 3:56pm On Jun 27, 2015
felsunseg:
it's just the everyday competition between facebook, apple and google
It's more than a competition.... I think they know better
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by tpiadotcom: 3:56pm On Jun 27, 2015
the problem is why is the information needed?
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by felsunseg(m): 4:01pm On Jun 27, 2015
Minet16:



Om dude, I'll check it out.




#@MINET16
just search for moments app download...... U can download it at googleplay or any andriod apps store.
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by felsunseg(m): 4:03pm On Jun 27, 2015
tpiadotcom:
the problem is why is the information needed?
its fun bros, it's a known fact that facbook dont have repect for their customer privacy.
Re: Facebook Is Now Able To Recognize You Without Even Seeing Your Face by felsunseg(m): 4:14pm On Jun 27, 2015
SortCode:
It's more than a competition.... I think they know better
with this app, if u commit a crime and maybe the cam captured the back of ur head, the thing the need to do is upload ur pics and u will be tag with the pics and everybody can see it, except u've review ur pivacy settings.

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