Facebook's facial recognition earns German state's wrath – Firstpost
13 years, 4 months ago

Facebook's facial recognition earns German state's wrath – Firstpost

Firstpost  

One of Facebook’s popular, and spoken about features has been its facial recognition feature, opting for which allows the social … One of Facebook’s popular, and much spoken about features has been its facial recognition feature, opting for which allows the social networking site to recognize faces on photos, and then suggest the user to tag the friend. According to a report in ZDNet, Johannes Casper, the data protection commissioner of Hamburg, Germany, has decided to sue the social networking site over this very feature, and will soon fine Facebook over the same. Facial recognition woes Casper alleges that there seems to be a lot of uncertainity over the opt-in v/s opt-out feature, and he is enraged by the fact that Facebook ignored the deadline, which he had set for Facebook to discontinue the feature. Facial recognition requires the user to add tags to any image, only once, which the feature would then memorize and use it for the next time the same person appeared in some other image uploaded.

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Meta Reintroduces Facial Recognition Tech in 'Celeb-Bait' Crackdown
5 months ago

Meta Reintroduces Facial Recognition Tech in 'Celeb-Bait' Crackdown

The Hindu  

Meta is testing the facial recognition technology again on Facebook, targeting public figures whose likenesses have been used in scam advertisements. The company will enroll about 50,000 public figures in a trial, comparing their Facebook profile photos with images used in suspected scam advertisements. If the images match and Meta believes the ads are scams, it will block them.

Texas sues Meta, saying it misused facial recognition data
3 years, 1 month ago

Texas sues Meta, saying it misused facial recognition data

NPR  

Texas sues Meta, saying it misused facial recognition data Enlarge this image toggle caption Tony Gutierrez/AP Tony Gutierrez/AP Texas sued Facebook parent company Meta for exploiting the biometric data of millions of people in the state — including those who used the platform and those who did not. The suit involves Facebook's "tag suggestions" feature, which the company ended last …

Facebook will stop using facial recognition feature but Meta will use it for metaverse products
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook will stop using facial recognition feature but Meta will use it for metaverse products

India Today  

Facebook announced a couple of days ago that it is doing away with its controversial facial recognition system. However, that doesn’t mean that the company is completely getting rid of the facial recognition system. The parent company of Facebook, Meta, said that it would continue using the facial recognition system for its metaverse products. Meta has now said that it …

Facebook to shut down face recognition for photo tagging
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook to shut down face recognition for photo tagging

Hindustan Times  

Facebook, which has changed its company name to Meta, has announced plans to shut down the facial recognition system used to tag people in photos and videos posted on the platform for about a decade. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” said Jerome Pesenti, Meta’s vice-president, artificial intelligence. Facebook …

Facebook pulls the plug on its facial recognition system, to delete faceprints of over a billion users
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook pulls the plug on its facial recognition system, to delete faceprints of over a billion users

Firstpost  

More than a third of Facebook’s daily users had opted in to using the facial recognition system; concerns over privacy cited as the main reason for the shutdown. Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system and deleting a billion faceprints, its parent company said Tuesday, in response to serious concerns over privacy. It was not clear when the changes …

Facebook plans to shut down its face recognition system, delete data
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook plans to shut down its face recognition system, delete data

India TV News  

Facebook on Tuesday announced that it plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system this month.Jerome Pesenti, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Meta, Facebook's newly named parent company, said in a blog post, "We will shut down the Face Recognition system on Facebook as part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our …

Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data
3 years, 4 months ago

Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data

The Hindu  

Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people. “This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history,” said a blog post Tuesday from Jerome Pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence for Facebook’s new parent company, Meta. “Its removal will result in …

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 …

Facebook Faces New Lawsuit For Using Instagram To Allegedly Store Biometric Data Without Consent
4 years, 7 months ago

Facebook Faces New Lawsuit For Using Instagram To Allegedly Store Biometric Data Without Consent

News 18  

Facebook and use data privacy really don’t seem to go hand in hand. In a new lawsuit filed in a state court in Redwood City, California, it is alleged that Facebook stored biometric data, such as from photo tags on the social network, without consent from as many as 100 million Instagram users. Instagram doesn’t use face recognition technology,” said …

Facebook's facial recognition lawsuit settlement stirs conversation about 'biometric privacy'
5 years, 1 month ago

Facebook's facial recognition lawsuit settlement stirs conversation about 'biometric privacy'

Firstpost  

Facebook agreed to pay $550 million to settle a case alleging it illegally collected biometric information for ‘face tagging’. Facebook’s massive settlement in a class-action case over violating a state law on how it uses facial recognition is being hailed as a watershed moment for “biometric privacy.” The leading social network said Wednesday it agreed to the $550 million payout …

Facebook to face $35 billion class-action lawsuit over misuse of facial recognition data
5 years, 5 months ago

Facebook to face $35 billion class-action lawsuit over misuse of facial recognition data

Firstpost  

The lawsuit began in 2015 when Illinois users accused Facebook of violating that state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act in collecting biometric data. For allegedly misusing users’ facial recognition data in Illinois, the US court has reportedly said that Facebook will have to face a class-action suit, which could cost it up to $35 billion. Facebook allegedly accomplished the said misuse …

Facebook says its facial recognition tech will now be an opt-in feature
5 years, 6 months ago

Facebook says its facial recognition tech will now be an opt-in feature

Firstpost  

Facebook announced that its facial recognition technology will no longer identify new users in their photo by default. “Starting today, people who newly join Facebook or who previously had the tag suggestions setting will have the face recognition setting and will receive information about how it works. The tag suggestions setting, which only controls whether we can suggest that your …

Facebook brings face recognition to all users, discontinues 'Tag Suggestions'
5 years, 6 months ago

Facebook brings face recognition to all users, discontinues 'Tag Suggestions'

Firstpost  

- Facebook Inc said on Tuesday its face recognition technology will now be available to all users with an option to opt out, while deciding to discontinue a related feature called ‘Tag Suggestions’. Face recognition, which was available to some Facebook users since December 2017, notifies an account holder if their profile photo is used by someone else or if …

Facebook brings face recognition to all users, discontinues 'Tag Suggestions'
5 years, 6 months ago

Facebook brings face recognition to all users, discontinues 'Tag Suggestions'

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: Facebook Inc said on Tuesday its face recognition technology will now be available to all users with an option to opt out, while deciding to discontinue a related feature called 'Tag Suggestions'. Tag Suggestions, which used face recognition only to suggest a user to tag friends in photos, has been at the center of a privacy related lawsuit since …

CNN Business
5 years, 6 months ago

CNN Business

CNN  

San Francisco CNN — Facebook is now offering facial-recognition features to all of its users, but says it will keep the capabilities turned off by default. The company previously began offering some users a settingin late 2017 that allowed them to decide broadly whether or not facial recognition was used in their Facebook experience. Facebook Facebook relies on facial recognition …

Facebook’s Face-ID Database Could Be the Biggest in the World. Yes, It Should Worry Us.
55 years, 2 months ago

Facebook’s Face-ID Database Could Be the Biggest in the World. Yes, It Should Worry Us.

Slate  

Every day, Facebook users upload hundreds of millions of photos to the social network. The company’s research suggests that Facebook holds “the largest facial dataset to date”—powered by DeepFace, Facebook’s deep-learning facial recognition system. Unlike Amazon’s Rekognition, which is facial recognition software that scans existing databases provided by clients like law enforcement agencies, Facebook’s system doesn’t need an external trove …

Could the #10YearChallenge Really Improve Facial Recognition Tech?
6 years, 2 months ago

Could the #10YearChallenge Really Improve Facial Recognition Tech?

Slate  

Over the past week, the #2009vs2019 meme challenge, alternately known as the #10yearchallenge and #HowHardDidAgeHitYou, has become the latest social media trend ripe for think piece fodder. Me 10 years ago: probably would have played along with the profile picture aging meme going around on Facebook and Instagram Me now: ponders how all this data could be mined to train …

Facebook may reveal eye-tracking technology in future
6 years, 9 months ago

Facebook may reveal eye-tracking technology in future

India TV News  

Facebook might bring an eye-tracking technology tools that will let the social media giant detect users' eye movement and emotions in future. In a 229-page document addressed to US Congress in the wake of Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal, Facebook revealed that it had investigated building the technology, Fortune reported on Wednesday. Facebook already has two patents titled "Dynamic eye …

Facebook facing class action over facial recognition software
6 years, 11 months ago

Facebook facing class action over facial recognition software

ABC  

A US federal judge has ruled that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit alleging that the social network unlawfully used a facial recognition process on photos without user permission. The ruling adds to the privacy woes mounting against Facebook over recent weeks, following disclosures that the personal information of millions of users was harvested by political consultancy firm Cambridge …

Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Its Use Of Facial Recognition Data
6 years, 11 months ago

Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Its Use Of Facial Recognition Data

NPR  

Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Its Use Of Facial Recognition Data Enlarge this image toggle caption Kevin Wolf/AP Kevin Wolf/AP A federal judge in California has ruled that Facebook can be sued in a class-action lawsuit brought by users in Illinois who say the social network improperly used facial recognition technology on their uploaded photographs. Technology Facebook To Face …

How to Turn Off Facebook's Face Recognition Features
55 years, 2 months ago

How to Turn Off Facebook's Face Recognition Features

Wired  

In recent days, more and more Facebook users started seeing a notification about how the social network uses its facial recognition technology. In December, though, the company announced that it would expand face recognition's scope to notify you when someone added a photo you were in, whether it was tagged or not. "You control face recognition," the message reads, popping …

Facebook's face recognition 'optional' tool is widely rolling out to users, but it raises a lot of privacy concerns
7 years, 1 month ago

Facebook's face recognition 'optional' tool is widely rolling out to users, but it raises a lot of privacy concerns

Firstpost  

However, not everything is great and rosy as Facebook claims as the company has not clarified about how long it will be an opt-in feature. Back in December last year, Facebook announced that it is rolling out new “optional” tool that will use its facial recognition prowess to protect user privacy. Facebook claims that this new feature will help reduce …

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 …

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 …

Facebook defends its right to use your photos amid privacy concerns
8 years, 5 months ago

Facebook defends its right to use your photos amid privacy concerns

Live Mint  

San Francisco: Facebook Inc.’s software knows your face almost as well as your mother does. Courts have struggled over what qualifies as an injury to pursue a privacy case in lawsuits accusing Facebook and Google of siphoning users’ personal information from e-mails and monitoring their web browsing habits. This year, the US Supreme Court set a “concrete injury” standard for …

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 …

Facebook Can Recognize You Even if You Don't Show Your Face
9 years, 9 months ago

Facebook Can Recognize You Even if You Don't Show Your Face

Wired  

Tagging has always been a controversial Facebook feature. In fact, the fact that Facebook’s engine was learning what we looked like and could suggest inserting our identity into images came with some consequences. According to New Scientist, Facebook’s artificial intelligence lab is working on an algorithm that can identify people even if their faces are hidden. Speaking to New Scientist, …

Facebook Moments Is a Smarter Photo App—Much Smarter
9 years, 9 months ago

Facebook Moments Is a Smarter Photo App—Much Smarter

Wired  

In 2012, Facebook attempted to roll out automatic photo sync, a feature that basically allowed you to store photos on Facebook, and then decide if you wanted to make them public. The company's new app, launched today, is a combination of the two earlier ideas---it's photo storage and auto-syncing meets private sharing, with some impressive facial recognition features to boot! …

Facebook will soon tag you in photos AUTOMATICALLY with DeepFace feature
10 years, 1 month ago

Facebook will soon tag you in photos AUTOMATICALLY with DeepFace feature

Daily Mail  

Uploading dozens of photos and tagging each one on Facebook can be tedious, and it appears the social network knows this. After creating a model, the team used a neural network that had been trained on a database of faces to try and match the face with one in a test database of more than 4 million images, containing more …

Facebook Envisions AI That Keeps You From Uploading Embarrassing Pics
10 years, 3 months ago

Facebook Envisions AI That Keeps You From Uploading Embarrassing Pics

Wired  

Let's say you're out drinking with your buddies, things get out of hand, you pull out your smartphone, you take a selfie in the middle of all this drunken revelry, then you take 30 or 40 more, and, without hesitation, you start uploading them to Facebook. LeCun is the New York University researcher and machine-learning guru who now oversees 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 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 add pictures to database for facial recognition
11 years, 6 months ago

Facebook wants to add pictures to database for facial recognition

NL Times  

Facebook is considering including public profile pictures of users in a large database for facial recognition. The social network announced the plans by an update of its terms of use, reports Reuter.The facial recognition database is used to help tag people in pictures and to automatically introduce people. The addition of public profile pictures will lead to an improved control …

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 …

Facebook buys facial recognition firm Face.com
12 years, 9 months ago

Facebook buys facial recognition firm Face.com

The Hindu  

Social networking giant Facebook has acquired Israeli facial recognition firm Face.com for an undisclosed amount in a bid to strengthen its photo-sharing platform. Face.com’s software is used for facial recognition on photos loaded on its websites and through mobile applications. We keep up with our friends and family, share interesting experiences from our daily lives, and perhaps most importantly for …

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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