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Re:Face++: API for face detection – also detects gender, age... by romanlevin on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @12:00PM (#8557572)
Can you actually target Facebook ads at specific users?
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Re:Face++: API for face detection – also detects gender, age... by MatthewMcDonald on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @12:24PM (#8557733)
You can target a group of specific users. There are some restrictions (minimum group size) but there are ways around it.[1]

[1] http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...

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Re:Face++: API for face detection – also detects gender, age... by romanlevin on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @03:54PM (#8558983)
This is fucking terrifying.
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Re:Face++: API for face detection – also detects gender, age... by downandout on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @08:20PM (#8560051)
You could until a couple of months ago, and you still can with some significant caveats. Also, combining names and locations with other data from third parties gives some pretty awesome postal mail/email/telemarketing lists for companies in this space.
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