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It's about time. Facebook has been violating this law for years.

by youareostriches 6y ago

imhoguy 6y ago
No FB user here. Is it possible to get myself labeled on FB-posted photos with my full name by some FB user?
- lostlogin 6y ago
  I’m not a user and never have been. People have tagged me many tines.
  - jacquesm 6y ago
    I'm not a user, have been a user for about 5 minutes. People have never tagged me on FB as far as I'm aware of. If someone did I'd be quite pissed off. To the best of my knowledge there are only two pictures of me online and both are well over a decade old.
    - wolco 6y ago
      You would be surprised with the amount of group class photos that get uploaded. If you have attended public school where they sold class pictures you are probably already classified.
- alpha_squared 6y ago
  Yes, though it would be equivalent to a label or sticker on an item in a store (note: not a barcode). It wouldn't carry meaning from a technological perspective (though I guess Facebook could try to mine that). The problem with Facebook's facial recognition features is that it has to recognize all faces, even faces that don't want to be recognized, to know which faces to legally not recognize. It's an all-or-nothing feature across its entire user base. It can't even be geofenced because users travel and upload from all sorts of parts of the world and wind up in the background of several photos. Facial recognition is a "logical feature" in that it mimics how people recognize people, but is problematic when applied at scale.
  - mulmen 6y ago
    If I don’t upload a picture of my face and tell Facebook “please let me know when you’d see my face, it looks like this”. Then any time they see a face they don’t recognize they should just do nothing. That’s not at all how Facebook chose to implement their face detection and pretending it’s a hard problem does a disservice to anyone interested in their privacy. Parsing the image and seeing faces is one thing. Persisting and correlating that data is another.
- deleted 6y ago
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It's about time. Facebook has been violating this law for years.

imhoguy 6y ago

No FB user here. Is it possible to get myself labeled on FB-posted photos with my full name by some FB user?

lostlogin 6y ago
I’m not a user and never have been. People have tagged me many tines.
- jacquesm 6y ago
  I'm not a user, have been a user for about 5 minutes. People have never tagged me on FB as far as I'm aware of. If someone did I'd be quite pissed off. To the best of my knowledge there are only two pictures of me online and both are well over a decade old.
  - wolco 6y ago
    You would be surprised with the amount of group class photos that get uploaded. If you have attended public school where they sold class pictures you are probably already classified.
alpha_squared 6y ago
Yes, though it would be equivalent to a label or sticker on an item in a store (note: not a barcode). It wouldn't carry meaning from a technological perspective (though I guess Facebook could try to mine that). The problem with Facebook's facial recognition features is that it has to recognize all faces, even faces that don't want to be recognized, to know which faces to legally not recognize. It's an all-or-nothing feature across its entire user base. It can't even be geofenced because users travel and upload from all sorts of parts of the world and wind up in the background of several photos. Facial recognition is a "logical feature" in that it mimics how people recognize people, but is problematic when applied at scale.
- mulmen 6y ago
  If I don’t upload a picture of my face and tell Facebook “please let me know when you’d see my face, it looks like this”. Then any time they see a face they don’t recognize they should just do nothing. That’s not at all how Facebook chose to implement their face detection and pretending it’s a hard problem does a disservice to anyone interested in their privacy. Parsing the image and seeing faces is one thing. Persisting and correlating that data is another.
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