Facebook in its continuous attempts to be the best available social networking site, many times compromises with its privacy policies. The new ‘Moments’ app, an application made to make sharing pictures easier is a similar step taken by the company.
The Moments application is another application which latches on your friend list, scans the faces and the pictures from your phone and groups similar faces into sets.
The application now suggests users to sync these sets into people with a right swipe. The users can (luckily) dismiss the recommendation by swiping to the left.
Moments might make sure that users pictures don’t fade away but one of its downside includes that people will have to keep it active at all times. Now, the users images belongs to user themselves which won’t be random images of people. This is where the website needs your permission before identifying your photo.
Facebook now uses an ‘advanced’ image recognition technology. The media is expecting Facebook to follow some code of conduct before it goes tagging and grouping faces together.
The facial recognition software automatically identifies a person in a digital image by comparing facial features and a database. It will then link a person’s name and their face in photos or videos.
This is a concern as most people might simply agree to the terms and conditions provided by the social networking website. The site does provide users with an option of trying the setting off but most people aren’t aware of such a thing existing.
Alvora Bedoya informed USA Today that Facebook has been trying to turn on facial recognition by default whereas in other services it has to be turned on by choice. The executive director on the Center on Privacy and Tech at Georgetown Law continued stating that this is now a way for them to create one of the largest collections out there.
Facial Recognition without a user’s permission is not only creepy but can also change the way technology is used. This is now being launched in the US for iOS and Android. Though it won’t be a surprise if it soon a part of the main website.
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