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Facebook Shuttering Facial Recognition System, Will Delete Data From Over a Billion Users
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They're looking for a scapegoat--"regulators":
Amen to that.
My spouse is pretty much addicted to it. First thing looked at in the morning, looks at it for a half hour before bed. Every night.
I stopped using it about a year ago. At first, I decided to not log into it for a month, then as time went by I didn't miss it one bit. The political infighting, the way people react to things. Reacting in ways they would never dream of to your face. Wondering what my co workers would think of what I posted (it was mostly cat videos and other really neutral stuff). I don't have to even consider it any more. I interact with people face to face. If you want to get in touch with me, you all ready have my email or my phone number. Send me a message, or text me. Or call me. Or knock on my door and say hello.
The other day, I was taking pictures with my phone. My spouse asked why I take pictures if I don't share them with anyone online. I referenced the books of photo albums I have and pictures taken of moments in life long before FB existed. I take pictures of things that bring me joy and happiness that I want to look at later.
I leave my FB account in place because my spouse is listed as married, and well they have to be married to someone. Also, because I can control it if the need arises. But I haven't logged on to it in almost a year. It lists nothing of my personal information except my home town. My listed employer is false, my picture isn't my picture, and unless I've accepted a friend request from you, you can't see any of it.
The whole thing was just a gigantic hassle. Like having email sent to an app on my phone. Why do I want THAT crap. I'm not oh so important that I need to know right away that mortgage rates have fallen again, or that I can discover even more ways to enjoy SiriusXM. I check my personal email once a day, and that's enough....
Facebook is the digital version of self gratification. It's a waste of electrons. Even more so than "The Bachelor"....
Facebook suddenly pretending to be concerned about privacy and data use-cases is not convincing me they're ever going to be a force for good or even just a mildly benign technology company. Delete the whole lot.
Expecting Facebook to voluntarily delete your personal data is like expecting a lion to voluntarily turn down a steak.
Siri can’t track how many times you call somebody because Siri requests are sent anonymously to the servers.
And then it has to match the name with your contacts on device, this is why she does such a poor job. Google just uploads everything to the cloud.
Google and Facebook already know everything about us. They have everything. Now they are keeping all the info and just turning off the user's ability to use it and then claiming they are going to forget something? LOL
Reading between the lines much? I didn't see anywhere in his post where he defended apple. I'm guessing the absence was sufficient?
Apple just put privacy measures in place and cost themselves and other companies over 10 billion so far in lost revenue. WTF else do you want jesus, you people are insufferable
And you seriously think by you getting emails about your disabled account somehow is less worse than Google having an entire operating system (pc and phone), google search engine which doesnt even require an account for you to use (anonymous user tracking capabilities), Ad-words (tracking on any hosted site with ad-words)..... yikes.. I would call you ignorant but that would be rude
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I don't care about the facebook, but if you like AI technology, the Face Recognition system is the mother of all modern AI (at least partially).
They startet with the "mark yourself in a picture" feature and it was very successful. They had tons of IDs, sometimes people marked themselves in hundreds of photos.
So they came up with the mass labelling and self learning approaches.
The AI would look at already marked photos of a user and would guess other pictures with this user in them. The feature was called "is that you?". For those who remember, the first few months, facebook would present you with a random selection of people and sometimes it would find you and you could check a box. The AI could learn from that checked box and would improve itself. After a year or two, facebooks' "is that you?" feature almost always presented you with a full collection of pictures with yourself in them. The AI became very capable, it could identify people from the side with only a handful of pictures from the front.
At the time, almost no one noticed this progress, but this technology is at the heart of all cutting edge AI. For example, all self-driving AI developers have thousands of Pakistanis and Indians labelling scenes from the streets. Facebook had this for free because we all helped them labelling, it was so much fun.
Facebook broke a lot of stuff, but in the future when you are old and a robot will help you find your glasses, it all startet with "is that you?".
They startet with the "mark yourself in a picture" feature and it was very successful. They had tons of IDs, sometimes people marked themselves in hundreds of photos.
So they came up with the mass labelling and self learning approaches.
The AI would look at already marked photos of a user and would guess other pictures with this user in them. The feature was called "is that you?". For those who remember, the first few months, facebook would present you with a random selection of people and sometimes it would find you and you could check a box. The AI could learn from that checked box and would improve itself. After a year or two, facebooks' "is that you?" feature almost always presented you with a full collection of pictures with yourself in them. The AI became very capable, it could identify people from the side with only a handful of pictures from the front.
At the time, almost no one noticed this progress, but this technology is at the heart of all cutting edge AI. For example, all self-driving AI developers have thousands of Pakistanis and Indians labelling scenes from the streets. Facebook had this for free because we all helped them labelling, it was so much fun.
Facebook broke a lot of stuff, but in the future when you are old and a robot will help you find your glasses, it all startet with "is that you?".
That’s basically every company ever, everyone is selling your data. You think email and phone number authentication is only for your verification? All of sudden spam numbers text you, all these weird SMS text messages about “fake” paying a bill. Sad to say everyone’s for sale here. Apple say they do it in house and to an extent but they still need to figure you out so they can pump out the right products. I remember back in 2012 with the iPhone 4s being able to detect exactly what you type on your desktop computer keyboard. despite being on stand-by just from 2 feet away from you word for word.