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Here's What Facebook's Internal Facial Recognition App Looked Like

posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 23 2020, @06:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the augmented-reality dept.

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for SoyCow8162:

Facebook developed an internal facial recognition app that allowed users to scan peoples' faces and identify them. Images obtained by Motherboard now show what that app looked like.

Business Insider first reported the existence of Facebook's facial recognition app in November last year. The app, made between 2015 and 2016, was available to Facebook employees and was designed to recognize employees and their Facebook friends who had facial recognition settings enabled, Facebook told Motherboard. Facebook uses facial recognition for spotting users in photos uploaded by themselves or others.

[...] When pointed at an individual it could recognize and link an account to, the app presented a pop-up over the person's face saying "You are friends." When the app could not identify someone, it displayed the message "Unable to recognize :(," according to another screenshot obtained by Motherboard.

A Facebook spokesperson provided the same statement the company did in response to Business Insider's original piece.

"As a way to learn about new technologies, our teams regularly build apps to use internally. The app described here was only available to Facebook employees, and could only recognize employees and their friends who had face recognition enabled," the spokesperson wrote in an email.

Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7ekmv/facebook-facial-recognition-app

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 23 2020, @07:24AM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 23 2020, @07:24AM (#974351) Journal

    relegated to a hospital laboratory somewhere, collecting bodily fluids from octogenarians.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @09:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @09:43AM (#974374)

    Future: Facebook Collects DNA Samples From All Users

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @05:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 23 2020, @05:05PM (#974482)

    Zuck's brains should just be blown out. That thing is gleefully creating a monstrous surveillance engine which collections information even on people who don't have accounts on it.