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> However, if you're able to leave or cut your usage, they extend no influence whatsoever. My friends often upload pictures of me, tagged with GPS coordinates
by beagle3 9y ago
> However, if you're able to leave or cut your usage, they extend no influence whatsoever.
My friends often upload pictures of me, tagged with GPS coordinates and user; And even though most have stopped tagging me (as I have asked), Facebook often does offer them to tag me, which means that Facebook has enough pictures of me to identify me in random pictures (even though I never uploaded a single one myself).
Google collects information from users themselves, and have some info from people mailing them (if you are not on google yourself, it's likely more than half your emails are still coming or going to a google server).
But Facebook has co-opted your friends and family to spy on you, all day every day. Very much big brother.
- saurik 9y agoWhen you upload photos to Facebook as part of an album, my experience is it doesn't even ask: it just goes ahead and tags people it recognizes, and it even sends them a push notification that you did that even before you click "save" on the album (it even attempts to live synchronize the text you are typing as the album description, which is insane).
- jaflo 9y agoWhat do you mean by live synchronizing the description?
- netsharc 9y agoIn my imaginary screenplay, a guy is hiding from the US government, but the NSA will find him because they have access to Facebook's face recognition system, and he happens to be in the background of a photo a tourist took.. "We have a face recognition hit, he's in... Thailand!"
- glibgil 9y agoYou can turn this off. You don't need to ask your friends to stop. https://www.facebook.com/help/187272841323203 https://www.facebook.com/help/187272841323203
- AlexandrB 9y agoI'm willing to bet the difference is purely cosmetic. Facebook likely still runs facial recognition on all uploaded photos even if it doesn't suggest tags.
- ryukafalz 9y agoNot only that, they need to do facial recognition for that setting to work. >When you turn off tag suggestions, Facebook won’t suggest that people tag you in photos that look like you. Otherwise, how would they know it looks like you?
- rmc 9y ago> which means that Facebook has enough pictures of me to identify me in random pictures (even though I never uploaded a single one myself). Facebook probably uses more than just facial recognition, it can also use the metadata. They know who uploaded it, so they can narrow down the "list of candidate faces" from 7 billion to the much smaller number of people your friend knows/tags people in photos.