Hoax facial recognition app Facezam identifies strangers
8 years ago

Hoax facial recognition app Facezam identifies strangers

Daily Mail  

A fake facial recognition app that claimed smartphone users would soon be able to identify complete strangers has turned out to be a publicity stunt. Scroll down for video The Facezam app, which has now been revealed to be a hoax, claimed it could scan millions of Facebook profile images in a matter of seconds WHAT DID THEY CLAIM? The fake facial recognition app Facezam claimed it could identify anyone - provided they had a Facebook profile. The fake facial recognition app created by a British entrepreneur Jack Kenyon claimed to identify anyone with a Facebook profile.

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Meta to scan people’s faces to check whether they are AI
5 months ago

Meta to scan people’s faces to check whether they are AI

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Meta will use facial recognition technology to help people check whether they are …

Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software

CNN  

CNN Business — Facebook said Tuesday it plans to stop using facial-recognition software that could automatically recognize people in photos and videos posted on the social network, marking a massive shift both for the tech industry and for a company known for collecting vast amounts of data about its billions of users. Pesenti wrote that the world’s largest social network …

Fake Faceapp with an adware module is currently infecting devices: Report
5 years, 8 months ago

Fake Faceapp with an adware module is currently infecting devices: Report

Firstpost  

The viral face changing app called FaceApp has been generating a lot of hype these past few days and people are questioning the app developer’s privacy policy. Now a new app is doing the rounds on the internet which tricks the users into believing that it is a certified version of FaceApp but it is really a malware infecting people’s …

Facial recognition helps arrest man with fake French passport entering the US
6 years, 6 months ago

Facial recognition helps arrest man with fake French passport entering the US

Firstpost  

Facial recognition has been growing for law enforcement, border control as concerns rise on privacy. Facial recognition technology was credited with the arrest this week of a man attempting to use a fake passport to enter the United States at Washington’s Dulles airport, officials said. Officials said that on the third day of deployment of the new technology, border agents …

HOW DOES FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY WORK?
6 years, 10 months ago

HOW DOES FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY WORK?

Daily Mail  

Experts believe that facial recognition technology will soon overtake fingerprint technology as the most effective way to identify people. Police in Washington are running suspect sketches through Amazon's controversial facial recognition software, report reveals In a previously undocumented use of facial recognition software, police in Washington state are using Amazon's 'Rekognition' to track down. California bans cops from using facial …

In An Era Of Fake News, Advancing Face-Swap Apps Blur More Lines
7 years, 1 month ago

In An Era Of Fake News, Advancing Face-Swap Apps Blur More Lines

NPR  

In An Era Of Fake News, Advancing Face-Swap Apps Blur More Lines Most people familiar with "face-swapping" know it as an innocuous social media feature. But as it grows more sophisticated, that technology has taken a sinister turn: It's now become easier to superimpose the faces of celebrities onto those of actors in pornographic films, resulting in highly-realistic fake videos. …

Facebook Expands Use Of Facial Recognition To ID Users In Photos
7 years, 3 months ago

Facebook Expands Use Of Facial Recognition To ID Users In Photos

NPR  

Facebook Expands Use Of Facial Recognition To ID Users In Photos toggle caption Facebook Facebook is expanding its use of facial recognition software to alert users when photos of them are posted on the platform — whether or not they are tagged in the photo. "We want people to feel confident when they post pictures of themselves on Facebook so …

iPhone X: Is Apple really building a huge database of people's faces? What does Face ID actually do?
7 years, 4 months ago

iPhone X: Is Apple really building a huge database of people's faces? What does Face ID actually do?

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It’s Apple’s brand new biometric technology, which uses very precise measurements of your face to check that …

Facebook tests facial recognition technology for accounts
7 years, 5 months ago

Facebook tests facial recognition technology for accounts

Daily Mail  

Soon, you could recover your Facebook account using nothing but your face. Facebook is testing a facial recognition system that will verify users who are locked out of their accounts. Facebook is testing a facial recognition system that will verify users who are locked out of their accounts It follows a move by Apple to bring facial recognition technology to …

iOS app Facezam allows you to match strangers in public to their Facebook profiles
8 years ago

iOS app Facezam allows you to match strangers in public to their Facebook profiles

Firstpost  

Users can take a picture of anyone and run it through the Facezam app which will show them their Facebook profile. Facezam scans billions of Facebook profile images a second, which it accesses through a database for developers, until it finds a match. Apps that collect users’ data or use automated technology to scan Facebook are forbidden from launching without …

Let's face-off on Facebook
8 years, 4 months ago

Let's face-off on Facebook

Deccan Chronicle  

Who knows, in the future you may be able to emote to your friend’s FB posts in your own wide-mouthed “haha”, openmouthed “wow” or a puckered-brow frown? Facebook’s latest acquisition — of a face recognition company FacioMetrics — has become the talk of the tech town regarding the possibilities of inclusion of facial gesture controls on the app front. ‘Intraface’, …

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)
8 years, 7 months ago

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)

Wired  

Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognize you. Earlier this month at the Usenix security conference, security and computer vision specialists from the University of North Carolina presented a system that uses digital 3-D facial models based on publicly available photos and displayed with mobile virtual reality technology to defeat facial recognition systems. Department of …

Facebook's Facial Recognition Software Is Different From The FBI's. Here's Why
8 years, 10 months ago

Facebook's Facial Recognition Software Is Different From The FBI's. Here's Why

NPR  

Facebook's Facial Recognition Software Is Different From The FBI's. Every time one of its 1.65 billion users uploads a photo to Facebook and tags someone, that person is helping the facial recognition algorithm. Compare that with the FBI's facial recognition technology, Next Generation Identification, which according to the FBI, identifies the correct person in the list of the top 50 …

NameTag: Facial recognition app scans faces for dating profiles, criminal background
11 years, 2 months ago

NameTag: Facial recognition app scans faces for dating profiles, criminal background

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The makers of new app called NameTag are promising that in the future …

Facebook wants to put profile photos in its facial recognition database
11 years, 6 months ago

Facebook wants to put profile photos in its facial recognition database

Firstpost  

Facebook is considering adding users’ profile pictures to their facial recognition database in a move which is sure to spark debate around the issue of online privacy. This possible move, which was unveiled on Thursday by Facebook as part of its data use policy update, will expand the scope of the social network’s controversial facial recognition technology, and improve the …

Facebook wants to put profile photos in its facial recognition database
11 years, 6 months ago

Facebook wants to put profile photos in its facial recognition database

Firstpost  

Facebook is considering adding users’ profile pictures to their facial recognition database in a move which is sure to spark debate around the issue of online privacy. This possible move, which was unveiled on Thursday by Facebook as part of its data use policy update, will expand the scope of the social network’s controversial facial recognition technology, and improve the …

Facebook considers adding profile photos to facial recognition
11 years, 6 months ago

Facebook considers adding profile photos to facial recognition

Live Mint  

San Francisco: 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 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. Facebook chief privacy officer …

Living in a world with facial recognition
13 years, 7 months ago

Living in a world with facial recognition

China Daily  

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. He sees increasing threats to privacy in facial recognition software and cloud computing -- the ability to store huge amounts of information in data centers. ALESSANDRO ACQUISTI: "The convergence of all these technologies -- face recognition, social networks, cloud computing -- and all these advances in statistical re-identification techniques and data mining …

Facebook faces fresh privacy complaints over facial recognition
13 years, 7 months ago

Facebook faces fresh privacy complaints over facial recognition

Firstpost  

Concerns about Facebook’s facial recognition technology are not just about the nuances of opt-in versus opt-out or the saving of sensitive biometric data by the company. It denies the accusations, saying:“We will consider the points the Hamburg Data Protection Authority have made about the ‘photo tag suggest’ feature but firmly reject any claim that we are not meeting our obligations …

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