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Want To Disable Facebook Facial Recognition? Read This

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Facebook is acquiring facial recognition firm Face.com, for an estimated $60 million.

Facebook already uses Face.com’s facial recognition technology to help it put a name to faces in photos uploaded to the social network. Now, with the acquisition of Face.com, the technology is coming in house.

So what does Facebook facial recognition actually do?

There are billions of photographs on Facebook’s servers. As your Facebook friends upload their pictures, Facebook will try to determine if any of the photos look like you. And if it finds what it believes to be a match, it may urge one of your Facebook friends to tag the photo with your name.

That’s what Facebook does with its facial recognition database right now. But nobody knows what it might do with it in the future.

Many people feel distinctly uncomfortable about a site like Facebook learning what they look like, and using that information without their explicit permission.

Although Facebook’s motivation may currently be to interconnect more of its users, and make photo tagging a more seamless process, the idea of there being a database built of 900 million people’s faces, with knowledge of who and what they like, and their personal relationships and conversations, puts a chill down the spine of privacy advocates.

Questions which are raised by Facebook’s facial recognition capabilities include how securely the database of information is stored, and how else might Facebook try to use it – including whether they might use the data to make money.

So.. How can you disable Facebook’s facial recognition technology?

Sadly, you can’t.

But what you can do is prevent Facebook from using its facial recognition database to suggest to your Facebook friends, when they upload photos of you to the site, that the pictures should be tagged with your name.

This doesn’t mean that Facebook won’t learn about what you look like and associate it with your likes and friendships – but it does mean you can opt out of Facebook using the data it has collected on your appearance.

If you don’t like the idea of Facebook suggesting your name when your friends upload photos, here’s how you disable the option.

  • Go to your Facebook account’s privacy settings.
  • Go to “Timeline and tagging” and click on “Edit settings”.
  • Choose “Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?”.
  • Select “No one” if you don’t want Facebook to tell your friends when it has recognised your face in a photo they have uploaded.
  • Press “OK”.

Unfortunately, Facebook doesn’t believe in “privacy by default” – which would mean that users’ express permission would be required (“opt-in”) before information about them could be shared. (By comparison, Google+ does ask you to opt-in to facial recognition).

If Facebook’s facial database is such a great concept – why doesn’t the company present its arguments to users as to why they should want to participate in it, and invite them to “opt-in” to being included in the huge collection of faces?

Instead, Facebook puts the onus on users to “opt-out” of technology like photo tagging suggestions, and personal information is shared by default.

If you are on Facebook and want to keep yourself informed about the latest news from the world of internet security and privacy you could do a lot worse than join the Sophos Facebook page where we regularly discuss these issues and best practice

Source: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/06/19/disable-facebook-facial-recognition/



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    • HfjNUlYZ

      Facebook has become a cesspool and ought to be flushed down the memory hole of history.

    • Anonymous

      BY THIS TIME, PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE SIGNED OFF FACEBOOK. NNNNOOOOOOOOO, THE ONE BRAIN CELLED MAMMALS LIKE TO BE TRACKED. THE ONE BRAIN CELL MAMMALS ENJOY BEING PART OF THE ILLUMINATI PLAN. THE ONE BRAIN CELL MAMMALS ONLY MAKE IT WORSE FOR THE INTELLIGENT MAMMALS THAT WANT IT ALL STOPPED AND STOPPED NOW. FREEDOM FOR ALL IN THE RIGHT SENSE. NOT THEIR (ELITE ILLUMINAT) IDEA OF FREEDOM. WAKE UP PEOPLE. TIMES A WASTIN.

    • Anti-Zion

      Data that has been corrupted becomes worthless and thats the way to not only fight back against facebook but also google.

      Facebook/FBI will try their best to ID you so edit a image of someone you don’t like and upload the image as you but keep in mind they need to be the same sex and about the same age as you.

      Me being a nigger and in the age group of 40-50 makes Obama an obvious option.

    • Valzore

      Better yet…disable Facebook

      http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/

    • MLK321

      Maybe we should copyright our faces.

    • Jojo

      Just download a few hundred photos of people from google, tag them as yourself and upload. This way there are lots of incorrectly tagged photos of yourself. This will make the system useless if everyone participates. There will be hundreds of duplicate photos with different tags. In fact, people should all upload the same 100 photos and tag them as themselves. That would be funny.

    • HfjNUlYZ

      my photos are there. there is nothing they will do to me..i dont fear a man whose strength is fighting in the dark using tricky methods.

      i so believe all this war-mongering, scare tactics about WW3, zombies, Facebull, and others, are just final desperate attempt at giving a one last kick))) of a dying beast by the elite.

      they are existing.

    • HfjNUlYZ

      “they are exiting”

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