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On June 9, 2011 CNN.com.featured Mark Milian’s Facebook Facial Recognition. Millan’s article reveals that in short time Facebook, without exception, will start scanning all images that are uploaded to its social network system. Facebook will then attempt to identify each person through its facial recognition program.
Facebook users will be afforded the opportunity to opt out of this feature through the manipulation of their privacy settings. However, the CNN article does not specify if the default privacy setting will enable or disable this identification feature. Additionally since individual Facebook users will possess the capability to “manually tag friends” it appears that a person’s privacy could be compromised against their will.
The ramifications and magnitude of Facebook’s intentions are extremely broad in scope and should not be underestimated. One thing is for certain, Mark Zuckerberg displayed tremendous foresight when he chose the name Facebook for his social networking site.
In my estimation, if CNN is reporting these developments accurately, Facebook in my book is well on its way to being considered Disgracebook.
Originally published on the Yahoo Contributor Network (YCN) on June 9, 2011
Note: This piece first appeared over three years ago. Ever since Facebook, other companies and governments seem to be making tremendous progress towards recognizing people through various and sophisticated facial recognition programs. How often and how happily do you now look into the camera, smile and say cheese?
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Han Van Meegerin
It’s quite unfortunate that things are headed this way. On to a Brave New World.
It is scary indeed!