Facebook wants all the profile pictures in the database for face recognition

Facebook wants all the profile pictures in the database for face recognition

Facebook wants all the profile pictures in the database for face recognition

 

 

Facebook is considering installation of profile pictures more than a billion customers in its growing base of controversial face recognition technology, according to Reuters. This move, which was discovered in upgrading their policies on the use of data, is intended to improve propose tags, or to facilitate labeling to your friends photographs.

 

Tag Suggest feature uses face recognition technology to speed up the tagging people in photos. Currently this technology automatically detects faces and compares them with only previous image in which the men were identified. Users can choose to remove the tags on which they had been tagirao on Facebook. These changes come at a time when Facebook and other Internet companies under a "magnifying glass", after the discovery of an affair with spying citizens. Facebook, Google and other companies claim that they are not participating in the program that the government was giving direct access to their servers and to only offer information based on individual requirements and after a thorough study of the case in accordance with the laws. Erin Egan from Facebook stating that the addition of profile photos public users in the database allow users more control over personal information, so it would be easier to see where all the photos that have been tagged. Users, which is facial recognition technology intimidating, and still be able to opt out of the story.