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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by saurik on Saturday August 12, 2017 @04:05PM (#14999690)
When you upload photos to Facebook as part of an album, my experience is it doesn't even ask: it just goes ahead and tags people it recognizes, and it even sends them a push notification that you did that even before you click "save" on the album (it even attempts to live synchronize the text you are typing as the album description, which is insane).
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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by netsharc on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:54AM (#15006637)
In my imaginary screenplay, a guy is hiding from the US government, but the NSA will find him because they have access to Facebook's face recognition system, and he happens to be in the background of a photo a tourist took.. "We have a face recognition hit, he's in... Thailand!"
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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by jaflo on Saturday August 12, 2017 @08:10PM (#15000784)
What do you mean by live synchronizing the description?
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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by saurik on Saturday August 12, 2017 @11:05PM (#15001277)
Like, every few seconds the description of the in-progress album is synchronized to the live album you don't even realize is live yet.
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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by pyman on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:21PM (#15082787)
Facebook is worst than the KGB
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