News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Facebook is terrifying by pmoriarty on Saturday February 04, 2017 @04:23PM (#13569146)
Facial recognition software can only recognize you if your face is already in the database and identified as you. It's not going to magically know your identity otherwise, no matter how sophisticated it is.

On the other hand, I guess it could do some inference, such as: person X seen at location Y is also seen going in to residence Z every evening and coming out of the same residence every morning for the last 6 months, therefore there's a high probability that this person's address is residence Z, and since John Doe is the only person registered as living in that residence, person X is probably John Doe, etc.

Re:Facebook is terrifying by jdormit on Saturday February 04, 2017 @05:12PM (#13569410)
> Facial recognition software can only recognize you if your face is already in the database and identified as you.

Right, which is exactly what would happen if law enforcement/governments could access FB's database.

Re:Facebook is terrifying by mamon on Saturday February 04, 2017 @06:27PM (#13569728)
Government already has a huge database of photos with name tags attached: the photos you submit when you want to get a passport, drivers license, or any other form of ID.