This is scary

[whs]

Facebook has this new face recognition function. When you post a picture showing several people, it will link the pages of all those people - provided they have a facebook account with a picture.

My wife made an 'artist canvas' for her mother with a picture including her father who died 25 years ago. She posted that on one of her crafting facebook sites where she is on the design team. Facebook threw up a link to her brother's facebook site. Her brother is about the same age now as her father was on the picture.

This is scary.

 

[ThrashZone]

The whole face recognition feature is a bit unnerving and I'm not just talking about Facebook,
You had to see where the feature was going,
Others have control who they know and tag,
Yes it's undeniably scary,
Law enforcement loves the new feature

 

[whs]

You could be easily arrested because your father or twin brother has a record. Not something to look forward to.

 

[Computer0304]

Well that's why I try not to upload pictures of the real me on the interwebs.

 

[ThrashZone]

You'd think that would be enough
Now you have to think about your friends/ relatives .... habits with images and social networks

 

[Computer0304]

Well that would be their job because I never uploaded a picture of them too.

 

[ThrashZone]

You wouldn't need to upload a picture or send one to ....
All you would need to do is be in a group photo that some else took,
Heck I'm in a few I found and didn't even know it was a Kodak moment
Then off it goes/ tagged and posted on Facebook......

 

[Wandering one]

If NSA/CIA ever set up this sort of thing (maybe something in that :devil, there would be a revolution. So called social media does it and people can't wait to sign up.
How many think of "Peanuts" and Charlie Brown ..... "People are like sheep"
Art.

 

[Britton30]

If NSA/CIA ever set up this sort of thing (maybe something in that :devil, there would be a revolution. So called social media does it and people can't wait to sign up.
How many think of "Peanuts" and Charlie Brown ..... "People are like sheep"
Art.

Why do you think they haven't already? Anything underhanded and intrusive they will use. If anyone has a picture on any type of ID, license, etc, they already have it.
This is yet another reason I stay away from FB and Twitter.
People argue it's a way to "stay in touch", I have email and a telephone, or God forbid, write a letter.

 

[Computer0304]

I'm at least safe with Twitter because I have no friends or relatives or anyone else that have a picture with me have no twitter account. And, like I said, I never ever post my real self. But remember, there is Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and all the other social networks too.

 

[ThrashZone]

That's funny Gary,
I've been going out of my way to get cruddy pictures on my DL's for years even CHL's,
All that wasted effort

 

[carwiz]

Yeah, dang state keeps putting a picture of some old man on my licenses. Ticks me off.

Ditto on email and telephone. I'm in a FB and Twit free zone.

 

[ThrashZone]

Yeah, dang state keeps putting a picture of some old man on my licenses. Ticks me off.

:roflmao:

 

[Alejandro85]

Why is it scary? If you purposely upload pictures or any data about you to public sites that are specifically designed to make that info public, what's the big surprise?

 

[Britton30]

Eh? Well it's scary because if you didn't upload an image yourself you may still be identified with the software. Say perhaps someone takes a group pic at a weeing, graduation, picnic, etc, each person could be identified although they had nothing to do with it being uploaded to a public site.

 

[whs]

In this case it was not even a picture of the person who\s ID came up but a picture of his father that died 25 years ago. And it was not an uploaded single picture but it was embedded in a piece of crafting art.

 

[Alejandro85]

They would be able to identify you in that way if you had previously uploaded a picture of you to your own FB, otherwise, it would just be "an unknown face".

 

[Britton30]

They would be able to identify you in that way if you had previously uploaded a picture of you to your own FB, otherwise, it would just be "an unknown face".

You keep on believing that. Here in the US anyone who has a drivers license has a photo on it and are online via the bureau of motor vehicles. The government could, and will, use it to ID "unknown face" easily. It does not have to be on FB or any social media.