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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by wvenable on Thursday December 29, 2016 @02:32PM (#13279419)
But your husband and friends are at fault for sharing your information, not FB.

Take Facebook out of the equation and you still have friends showing your picture around, perhaps to people you don't want them to. In a Facebookless world, you would simply tell them to stop. My point is that it isn't Facebook's fault that your friends share too much about you.

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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by dsp1234 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @02:38PM (#13279460)
Yes, which means the original commenters position of "don't use their service" isn't strong enough, which is what I said. Note that "their service" isn't limited to FB.
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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by TheBeardKing on Thursday December 29, 2016 @02:41PM (#13279479)
Can it even store biometric data for you if it doesn't know who you are? I was under the assumption that it's only stored if your profile is linked with your face in a photo.
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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by dsp1234 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @02:56PM (#13279610)
Can it even store biometric data for you if it doesn't know who you are?

That's a weirdly phrased question, since your biometric data is, by definition, part of "who you are".

I was under the assumption that it's only stored if your profile is linked with your face in a photo.

My comment has more do with the base concept of "don't want to be tracked, don't use their service" as a general concept for any service, rather than FB specific (which is why I gave a non-FB example). That said, I don't know if the rumors of "shadow profiles" are true or not. There is no technical reason why an image with two people in it (one of him which they already have) tagged with a comment of "Me and my wife on our honeymoon", couldn't be parsed given current NLP and face recognition capabilities.

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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by webspiderus on Thursday December 29, 2016 @02:59PM (#13279636)
Sure, you can create a set of 'face templates' that may or not be linked to a profile, and then match against them as long as you have some meaningful way to use the matching templates without a profile.
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