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How would Facebook be able to innovate if everything they released was opt-out? This isn't some privacy-leaking piece of the site, it is a feature that helps o

How would Facebook be able to innovate if everything they released was opt-out? This isn't some privacy-leaking piece of the site, it is a feature that helps one of their core components be better. If you are that much of a privacy freak, don't make a Facebook account. It's that simple - either you want your data out there to some degree or not (and don't glorify Facebook into something that it is not).

ltamake 15y ago
So every Facebook user deserves to have their privacy invaded because they have an account on that site? Facebook should have been clear about what the feature did, what it didn't do, and how it used their account. They also should have sent emails out warning users of the feature's activation. Facebook does this all the time, but they'll get off the hook yet again just because they're Facebook. Sigh...
- invisible 15y ago
  How does this invade somebody's privacy? I don't get it - because it makes detecting a friend's face possible?
  - ltamake 15y ago
    Because it shouldn't be enabled by default?
Splines 15y ago
(I think you meant opt-in) How would Facebook be able to innovate if everything they released was opt-in? This isn't some privacy-leaking piece of the site, it is a feature that helps one of their core components be better. This is definitely cool technology, and FB does have the right to do whatever they want. Kudos to them for also providing a switch to allow users to turn it off. However, "How would Facebook be able to innovate..."? Isn't having a FB account opt-in? They're not exactly in a dearth for more users - if they want people to be happy with the feature, then educate and sell the feature to them. If they're worried that by providing an option, people will ignore it and some developer's pet project is going to remain unused, then you might as well consider this feature mastubatory: FB is having fun doing face detection, and the users are getting nothing out of it.

ltamake 15y ago

So every Facebook user deserves to have their privacy invaded because they have an account on that site? Facebook should have been clear about what the feature did, what it didn't do, and how it used their account. They also should have sent emails out warning users of the feature's activation. Facebook does this all the time, but they'll get off the hook yet again just because they're Facebook. Sigh...

invisible 15y ago
How does this invade somebody's privacy? I don't get it - because it makes detecting a friend's face possible?
- ltamake 15y ago
  Because it shouldn't be enabled by default?

Splines 15y ago

(I think you meant opt-in) How would Facebook be able to innovate if everything they released was opt-in? This isn't some privacy-leaking piece of the site, it is a feature that helps one of their core components be better. This is definitely cool technology, and FB does have the right to do whatever they want. Kudos to them for also providing a switch to allow users to turn it off. However, "How would Facebook be able to innovate..."? Isn't having a FB account opt-in? They're not exactly in a dearth for more users - if they want people to be happy with the feature, then educate and sell the feature to them. If they're worried that by providing an option, people will ignore it and some developer's pet project is going to remain unused, then you might as well consider this feature mastubatory: FB is having fun doing face detection, and the users are getting nothing out of it.