To be clear, Facebook did announce the partial launch of its facial recognition program in a blog last December. (That launch came with its own set of slightly less public privacy problems.) What’s new now is that Facebook has started rolling out the feature to more users in more cou...
The FBI is preparing to launch a facial recognition database this summer that includes photos of people without criminal records- and a court case in New York may expand the ability of the government to request data from Facebook to help. [READ:Facebook Study Highlights the Future of Advertis...
Facebook hasn't revealed how accurate its facial recognition feature is, but its DeepFace algorithm identified people in a 4,000-person database with 97.35 percent accuracy. O'Keeffe, who founded MPAN in 2013 after her brother Dan went missing, said she learned firsthand how keen the public...
The downside is that Facebook has a hugefacial recognition databaseof its users, which, as Sarah Jacbosson Purewal points out, is creepy. Or is it? While I doubt Coca-Cola or Nike could derive much benefit from identifying your face (at least not until we have “Minority Report”-style...
This question seems to be what’s most upsetting privacy proponents. If Facebook is able to create a searchable database of its users’ images, wouldn’t that mean it’s possible to search for someone with nothing more than a photo? That means a stranger could take your picture, upload ...
For example, Facebook’s facial recognition, which is the basis of the current efforts, can’t identify you. It only can recognize if a person in one photo is the same as a person in another photo. Identification is a completely separate step. ...
A surveillance company has been using social networking sites, including Facebook and YouTube, to build a giant facial-recognition database.
” The new system has smartphone technology calledBlue Wolf, a facial recognition program that takes pictures of people in the streets, or, to be concise, Palestinians. The pictures are then cross-referenced with the database by the Blue Wolf system and identifies the individual. Regardless if ...
Face recognition remain hard to do said Erick Learned-Miller, an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts whose research includes “machine learning” and “computer vision. And it’s especially difficult if you’re using a very large database. “The larger the ...
Facial recognition systems, like Facebook's, identify people by matching faces to digital representations of faces stored on a database. Facebook has more than a billion of these representations on file but now says it will delete them. This announcement came barely a week after Facebook's pa...