Facebook, an app that recognizes people in the camera in real time
It was made between 2015 and 2016, and used only internally: it could recognize people in real time by showing their name and Facebook profile photo on the screen.
Facebook has created an app that allows you to recognize people by simply framing them with the phone’s camera. As Business Insider reports, the app was developed between 2015 and 2016 and used only internally. Its operation was based precisely on the huge archive of photos uploaded by users and face recognition information to identify people in real time in a matter of seconds.
During 2016, the app was made available to company employees who could use it to identify anyone for whom the social network had sufficient information, regardless of whether or not he was a Facebook employee. Only later was it modified and limited to recognizing only the people on the user’s Facebook contact list.
A Facebook spokesman denied that the app was ever used to identify strangers who weren’t working on Facebook, and that it was only able to recognize the faces of Facebook employees and their friends who had enabled the facial recognition system of Facebook on your account.
Facebook has been using facial recognition technologies for some time to identify the subjects of photographs that are uploaded to the social network to suggest the possibility of affixing tags, but the version of these technologies made available to the public has also been used only for photographs and not to perform recognition and identification in real time and with people in flesh and blood.
” As a way to learn how new technologies work, our tream periodically builds apps for internal use. The app described here was only available to Facebook employees, and could only recognize the employees themselves and their friends who have facial recognition enabled, ” said a company spokesman.
What will Facebook have in mind to further jeopardize our privacy?
