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Re:You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record o... by vinniejames on Saturday September 07, 2019 @04:56PM (#20906461)
The point is your algorithm will still need to detect "a" person in order to confirm it's not a person who has opted in and should be scanned
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Re:You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record o... by dondawest on Saturday September 07, 2019 @05:58PM (#20906818)
Exactly. You still need to detect which person is in the photograph in order to determine that it is a person who has opted-out. This feature is an incredibly half-assed PR attempt.
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