Yesterday Facebook announced it was changing its settings for face recognition, which it has used since 2010 to match known faces in user profile pictures and other photos to unknown faces in newly uploaded photos. This leads to two questions: What exactly has Facebook changed? How many Facebook users...
Yesterday Facebook announced it was changing its settings for face recognition, which it has used since 2010 to match known faces in user profile pictures and other photos to unknown faces in newly uploaded photos. This leads to two questions: What exactly has Facebook changed? How many Facebook users...
“It certainly does set off some creepy factor,” said Parker Higgins, an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group in San Francisco. “It does feel intrusive, and people may be upset.”
Facebookistan has 845 million people, and an economy that rivals many countries'. Brooke and Bob talk to Jillian York and Clay Shirky about the contours of Facebookistan, and how it effects life in the actual world we live in.
