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

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 Nesh on Tuesday March 24 2020, @09:41AM

    by Nesh (269) on Tuesday March 24 2020, @09:41AM (#974868)

    it's not a test for non-smokers. I'd assume non-smokers prefer no smoke at all.

    It's surely a test for smokers.
    Many tout their 'freedom to smoke' right until I started smoking something they don't like.
    And the pipe wasn't particularly obnoxious: non-smokers preferred it over the cigarettes.

    "If you politely ask me beforehand if you could do the activity, and am much more inclined to be agreeable, even though I might find it unpleasant."
    Like smokers generally do? What percentage would you say asks before lighting up in public?
    Many even smoke where it is not allowed but heaven forbid you make a remark on that.
    I never smoke where it's forbidden.

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