From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
Hello All,
this seems to be pertinent in view of the uploading of a host of photographs:
(from the Electronic Frontier Foundation at:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/how-disable-facebooks-facial-
recognition-feature [copy and paste; no newline in address])
"June 9th, 2011
How to Disable Facebook's Facial Recognition Feature
Announcement by Eva Galperin
Back in December of 2010, Facebook debuted its tag suggestion feature, which
works by using facial recognition technology to examine photos in which
youŽve already been tagged, and then creating what Facebook calls your "photo
summary" or "photo comparison information," or what weŽll call your "facial
fingerprint." Using this information, FB suggests your name to your friends
when they upload a photo of you, and invites them to tag you in that photo.
Over the last few months, Facebook has been slowly rolling this feature out
to all of its users, which caught the attention of security firm Sophos, The
New York Times, and the European Union, which has launched a probe to
investigate the new feature.
Like most new Facebook features, this one is turned on by default. If you
would prefer not to have Facebook store your facial fingerprint and use it to
suggest photos in which your friends can tag you, you will need to opt out
manually. The following video [go the web address indicated; GBN note] will
show you three ways to delete your facial fingerprint data from Facebook, and
show you a privacy setting that lets you ensure that you are the only person
who can see tags identifying you in photographs."
Kind regards,
George
Cary Ginell wrote:
> There are ways to defeat this; by making sure all of your security measures
> are properly entered. I've been on FB since October (I thought as you did
> before this) and haven't had any problems with scammers or advertising. As a
> social media site, you can make FB work for you so that you do not get
> bogged down with people telling what restaurant they are at or how their dog
> pooped in their living room. I get a lot of great links to classic
> recordings, YouTube videos, media stories, and the like. Plus, I've made
> some great contacts with friends I hadn't spoken to in decades.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
> > Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:32:02 -0400
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Some ARSC Conference Photos and a neat video on
> ARSC's FB Page
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Steve Ramm wrote:
> >
> > > While ARSC is working on ways to add Photos and Videos of ARSC's
> > > Conferences to the ARSC Home page, I posted a few photos from the LA
> Conference on
> > > ARSC's Facebook Page.
> >
> > Steve...
> >
> > According to recent news stories, there are a lot of people who are
> > "unfriending" Facebook.
> >
> > I have no interest in joining them or any of the other "social media"
> sites,
> > since they are all magnets for scammers, advertisers and identity thieves,
> none
> > of whom I wish to become exposed to!
> >
> > Seems to me you used to post pictures where we could all look at them...
> > perhaps you could revisit that practice in the interim?
> >
> >
> >
> > ... Graham Newton
> >
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>
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