Facebook Adds Face Detection To Photos, Recognition Next?

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Facebook Adds Face Detection to Photos, Recognition Next?

BY Kit EatonFri Jul 2, 2010

Facebook is testing a new technology it says will save its members lots of time and effort: face detection for easy cataloging of people that appear in pictures. It sounds neat, but is this going to turn into Facebook's next privacy nightmare?

Facebook's spin on the face-detection tech is pretty simple. In a blog post announcing the news, the site notes, "This might surprise you, but within the photos product most people spend their time uploading, browsing and tagging photos. As a result, we're working to improve your experience in each of those." Actually Facebook, it doesn't surprise us at all--and it shouldn't surprise you that people spend a lot of time browsing photos... when they're in the photos pages, nor that they spend time tagging the names of the people in those photos. Isn't friend-interaction what Facebook's all about?

Despite this odd intro, the new system does seem a breeze. Much like the face-detection algorithms used on some [... more]

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Facebook is already expired http://www.quitfacebookday.com/

I didn't think face book had any users left....

Can anybody put this guys in jail once and for all?