Facial recognition comes to Facebook photo tags

[Matt Collins]

Taking yet another step in the ongoing process of upgrading its photo-sharing service, Facebook announced today that it will soon enable facial-recognition technology--meaning that when members upload photographs and are encouraged to "tag" their friends, they will be able to choose from a list of suggestions.


Thanks to its treasure trove of user photos that have already been tagged, not to mention personal profile photos, Facebook has built up a huge base of data for gauging exactly who's in what photo. There are now 100 million photo uploads per day, according to Facebook, and 100 million "tags" each day as well. Tagging is also a hallmark of Facebook's photo product, which was otherwise bare-bones, difficult to use, and lagged behind competitors at its launch. Being able to annotate each photo with friends' names was largely what propelled Facebook Photos forward.
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[DFF]

I deleted my Facebook account about a week ago. Myspace is up next.

 

[Son of Detroit]

Cool feature. Will make tagging a lot easier.

 

[eduardo89]

Cool feature. Will make tagging a lot easier.

It will also make it easier for our every move to be monitored...I love having facebook, but I'm starting to hate how much of my information is there for anyone to see, even with privacy filters set

 

[DamianTV]

Cool feature. Will make tagging a lot easier.

THis guy is a terrorist.

THis guy is a pervert.

This guy is boring.

This guy is a terrorist too!

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There is one thing that people need to do with facebook. Put the following lines in to your HOSTS file. Google HOSTS to see what that does.

www.facebook.com 127.0.0.1
www.connect.facebook.com 127.0.0.1

Facebook tracks EVERYONE, not just people that volunteer their information, they track EVERYONE on every website that has any sort of a facebook link. Only way around that is to make sure your computer NEVER talks to facebook period.