Facebook Facial Recognition Now Finds Photos/Videos You’re Untagged in
I’m sure you already know about Facebook Facial Recognition and its uses while we Tag Friends in photos or pictures.
Now, Facebook wants to make sure you know about and control the photos/videos of you people upload, even if they don’t tag you. So today, Facebook launched a new facial recognition feature called Photo Review that will alert you when your face shows up in newly posted photos so you can tag yourself, leave it be, ask the uploader to take the photo down or report it to Facebook.
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Pros of Facebook Facial Recognition Update
The feature should give people confidence that there aren’t pics of them floating around Facebook that they could see but just don’t know about. It could also help thwart impersonation. But Facebook tells me it has no plans to use facial recognition to enhance ad targeting or content relevancy sorting, like showing you more News Feed posts from friends who post untagged photos of you or ads related to locations where you appear in untagged photos.
If you’re in someone’s profile photo which is always public, you’ll always be notified. For other photos, you’ll only get notified if you’re in the audience for that photo so as to protect the uploader’s privacy and not alert you about photos you’re not allowed to see. A Photo Review section of the profile will keep track of all your untagged but recognized photos.
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Facebook’s applied machine learning product manager Nipun Mather tells me the feature is designed to give people more control, make them feel safer, and provide opportunities for nostalgia.
Facebook is also using the feature to assist the vision impaired. Now Facebook’s machine Vision-powered feature that describes what’s in a photo will also read aloud the names of untagged friends.
“Over time our goal is to make these features available everywhere . . . but right now we’re focusing on markets where tag suggestions are available” says Facebook’s Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Rob Sherman.
While Tag Suggestions might be seen as weakening privacy, Photo Review could be perceived as enhancing it and might get a pass from regulators. Whether it’s an unauthorized photo of you that you want to be taken off Facebook, an embarrassing pic you don’t want to be tagged but want to monitor comments on, or someone trying to pretend to be you, Photo Review gives people more visibility into how their likeness is used.
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_ Courtesy: techcrunch.com
Well that is another step forward towards AI and Machine Learning. What do you expect more??