More privacy fears as Facebook buys facial-recognition startup for undisclosed sum | Mail Online
Facebook is bringing one of its long-term vendors, a facial-recognition technology company Face.com, in-house.
The Israeli company's technology helps people tag photos on the Web by figuring out who is in the pictures.
The deal bolsters one of Facebook's most popular features - the sharing and handling of photos - but the use of the startup's technology has spurred concerns about user privacy.
We're watching: The camera that can recognise you from your Facebook picture every time you walk into a shop | Mail Online
The Facebook camera that can recognise you every time you walk into a shop
Could be used by shops to offer discounts to customers
System already being trialled in Nashville shops and bars
Users must sign up to take part and 'teach' system what they look like
Shoppers could soon be automatically recognised when they walk into a shop using a controversial new camera.
Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognise people as they walk in.
Shoppers who agree to use the system, which has not been developed with Facebook, will be offered special deals
» Facebook Spies On Chats For Suspicious Behavior Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
Citing the need to watch for potential sex offenders, Facebook is using software that tracks private conversations for suspicious behavior and keywords before alerting Facebook employees who then decide whether to pass the information on to police.
The revelation was divulged during a Reuters interview with the social networking giants Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan.
Despite the article acknowledging the fact that Internet-related sex crimes against children are on the decrease, the story cites a barrage of cases where children have been groomed online before revealing that Facebook users could be unnerved about the extent to which their conversations are reviewed, at least by computer programs.
IF YOUR NOT ON FACEBOOK-- they say your not "NORMAL" or suspicious
Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists, believe people who arent on social networking sites are suspicious.
The German magazine Der Taggspiegel went so far as to point out that accused theater shooter James Holmes and Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik have common ground in their lack of Facebook profiles
HOW TO PERMANENTLY DELETE YOUR FB ACCOUNT
https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=224562897555674
Facebook is bringing one of its long-term vendors, a facial-recognition technology company Face.com, in-house.
The Israeli company's technology helps people tag photos on the Web by figuring out who is in the pictures.
The deal bolsters one of Facebook's most popular features - the sharing and handling of photos - but the use of the startup's technology has spurred concerns about user privacy.
We're watching: The camera that can recognise you from your Facebook picture every time you walk into a shop | Mail Online
The Facebook camera that can recognise you every time you walk into a shop
Could be used by shops to offer discounts to customers
System already being trialled in Nashville shops and bars
Users must sign up to take part and 'teach' system what they look like
Shoppers could soon be automatically recognised when they walk into a shop using a controversial new camera.
Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognise people as they walk in.
Shoppers who agree to use the system, which has not been developed with Facebook, will be offered special deals
» Facebook Spies On Chats For Suspicious Behavior Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
Citing the need to watch for potential sex offenders, Facebook is using software that tracks private conversations for suspicious behavior and keywords before alerting Facebook employees who then decide whether to pass the information on to police.
The revelation was divulged during a Reuters interview with the social networking giants Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan.
Despite the article acknowledging the fact that Internet-related sex crimes against children are on the decrease, the story cites a barrage of cases where children have been groomed online before revealing that Facebook users could be unnerved about the extent to which their conversations are reviewed, at least by computer programs.
IF YOUR NOT ON FACEBOOK-- they say your not "NORMAL" or suspicious
Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists, believe people who arent on social networking sites are suspicious.
The German magazine Der Taggspiegel went so far as to point out that accused theater shooter James Holmes and Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik have common ground in their lack of Facebook profiles
HOW TO PERMANENTLY DELETE YOUR FB ACCOUNT
https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=224562897555674
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