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Facebook Shuttering Facial Recognition System, Will Delete Data From Over a Billion Users

Well, they could have had one of their subsidiary companies backup the data, and the FB deletes their data - they get to state their intentions, without losing any data.

I hope its true and they are doing it. But that would be like a bank saying they are going to destroy some money - because data is money to FB.
 
I would like to know what kind of people still use Facebook on a regular basis? None of my relatives, co-workers or friends still use it. (except about 10 of them) For me, it just seems like a very outdated platform... almost like what MySpace was like back then.
 
bookofxero said:
You mean that mathematical representation (one-way hash) that is stored in the SE? What about it?
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Stil facial recognition. Photos tags everyone in library, some of whom I’ve never created tags for. It’s all the same bit, just different practices.
 
Translation: We will eventually be updating our face scanning capabilities to something 100 times better so we can track you anywhere in the world.
 
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rizzo41999 said:
Stil facial recognition. Photos tags everyone in library, some of whom I’ve never created tags for. It’s all the same bit, just different practices.
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Face ID is completely different.

FaceID is a locked system that has only one purpose... to unlock your iPhone. The same technology could be used to accurately identify you for reason including unlocking your car, house, your safe or even your top secret lab. FaceID is used as a key.

It is using the laser distance lens (Lidar) to create a 3D representation of your face... then converting the aligned 3D data into a hash value and comparing it to what is stored in the secure vault. At no time is your face ever sent to Apple servers... everything is run locally on the device.

This is similar to how passwords are stored now. You input the password and it is sent to the server which runs it though a hash and compares it to the hash stored in the database. It is possible, to reverse engineer your password by running a lot of possible passwords through the server and seeing if they are a match. It is even possible for 2 passwords to have the identical hash but the likelihood is very small. The stronger the hashing algorithm used, this becomes even less likely.

Facial Recognition operates on some of the same principles but it is working off of flat 2D image data as its source, not 3D data like the iPhone. There is a lot of guess work involved for the AI, and it can never be as accurate as a 3D scan. For example, Facebook for a while mixed up photos of my wife and daughter thinking they were the same person.

Facial Recognition can be used for any image source including CCTV cameras, photos uploaded to any internet website (including social media), video, even possibly infrared cameras if the AI was trained for them. The same AI could be tasked to identify voice prints as well. Or it could be trained to recognize other things in photos like illegal drugs, guns, etc and notify the police as soon as it does.
 
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mrz_V1 said:
They could shutdown today and there will still be people out there complaining about it. I'm convinced the people that live and breathe to hate facebook are the ones logging in everyday posting about how much they hate it, following toxic people and pages, and then in turn telling everybody how bad the experience is. Google has an entire operating system for them to track your use and hardly anyone even mentions it.. Google is the OG of privacy invasion and they seem to get little coverage these days.
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Facebook has had numerous scandals that show a much more evil company, to the extent that there are whistleblowers talking about all the shady stuff that Facebook does. Newsflash, all companies have access to your data, including Google and Apple. Facebook is by far the most evil and unethical company out there, and it's not close.
 
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Fabercon said:
Face ID is completely different.

FaceID is a locked system that has only one purpose... to unlock your iPhone. The same technology could be used to accurately identify you for reason including unlocking your car, house, your safe or even your top secret lab. FaceID is used as a key.

It is using the laser distance lens (Lidar) to create a 3D representation of your face... then converting the aligned 3D data into a hash value and comparing it to what is stored in the secure vault. At no time is your face ever sent to Apple servers... everything is run locally on the device.

This is similar to how passwords are stored now. You input the password and it is sent to the server which runs it though a hash and compares it to the hash stored in the database. It is possible, to reverse engineer your password by running a lot of possible passwords through the server and seeing if they are a match. It is even possible for 2 passwords to have the identical hash but the likelihood is very small. The stronger the hashing algorithm used, this becomes even less likely.

Facial Recognition operates on some of the same principles but it is working off of flat 2D image data as its source, not 3D data like the iPhone. There is a lot of guess work involved for the AI, and it can never be as accurate as a 3D scan. For example, Facebook for a while mixed up photos of my wife and daughter thinking they were the same person.

Facial Recognition can be used for any image source including CCTV cameras, photos uploaded to any internet website (including social media), video, even possibly infrared cameras if the AI was trained for them. The same AI could be tasked to identify voice prints as well. Or it could be trained to recognize other things in photos like illegal drugs, guns, etc and notify the police as soon as it does.
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Thank you for this breakdown, genuinely. I definitely have a better sense of how it works now.
 
I'm deleting Facebook this week. Nice to see these changes though, which might help reduce my existing footprint on the site after I'm gone.
 
Sure, either Facebook sold all the data already, excuse me I mean the data was “breached” or “Meta” is buying it.
 
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