How does the facial recognition in Facebook?
Already in 2012, Facebook introduced the face recognition, after protests it was taken in Europe and Canada out of the program. Now Facebook starts a second attempt.
- Facial recognition analyzes the individual pixels on photos and Videos, in which they were already marked. This individual arrangement of the pixels is stored in a file. New images or Videos are uploaded to Facebook, the System scans the content automatically to faces, and checks whether a stored face is present.
- You have disabled the function, is saved, no such file. You disable the function, the file will be deleted according to Facebook. For advertising or other purposes, the face detection should not be used. Is also passed on to other Facebook companies such as WhatsApp or Instagram is not provided.
Facial recognition in Facebook
Facebook: the pros and cons of facial recognition
- The biggest advantage of the face recognition, the protection of the personality rights. A picture of you is uploaded publicly on Facebook, you will receive a notification. Fake Accounts of one's own Person is thus possible to prevent.
- Upload your friends a common picture, and you will not be marked manually, the face recognition is also a notification. However, this is not the case, if you do not have access to the image.
- The major disadvantage of face recognition lies in the loss of control over such sensitive data. Next to your face can be analyzed in the theory, many other things. A tennis racket or a certain place to see in the picture, may Facebook will associate this data with your profile, and this information for personalized advertising.
- Keep in mind that it is much easier to leave data on the Internet, than to delete them again. Although Facebook does not want to give the data for advertising, or other companies can change quickly in the future. Until then, the face detection could have already collected many data.
Facial recognition in Facebook disable - how to?
- Since the end of April 2018, all users will receive the call from Facebook with a notification. Here, you will be asked to activate some functions on or off. Including the facial recognition.
- You have this process completed, you can use the face detection in the Facebook settings with the options "Yes" and "no" on and off.
- You have clicked away the window, you must wait until it appears again. You can then activate the function on or off.
Face detection off
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