Facebook is testing a face detection tool to verify your identity

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Facebook isn't entirely shying away from facial recognition, it seems. Code explorer Jane Manchun Wong has discovered a reference to a purported facial recognition system in Facebook's mobile app that would verify your identity. You'd have to take a "video selfie" where you look in different directions to give Facebook a more complete view of your face. It would bit like Apple's Face ID and similar systems, but there's no evidence it would require a depth sensor. Facebook vows that "no one else" will see the video and that it'll delete the clip after 30 days, although that's not quite as secure as systems like Face ID (which doesn't allow data to leave the device, and only captures "mathematical representations" of your face).

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Oh great.

Facebook can join the Chinese government and Russian government in tracking every one of us..

The three and others should join forces to make sure that they can track the maximum amount of people..

As we all need to be tracked and monitored.
 
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The thing is Facebook or else are businesses, they can do what they want, it is up to the people to go in or out. I would worry more if my medical records made by public hospitals were shared with some ads companies to sell me some blue pills to feel like a 20 years old guy :p
 

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