http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/ Engadget Comments for Facebook adds face detection, still can't identify books http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.orkut.com from past 2 years. It gets annoying though when empty boxes start popping on the faces every time you open an image and gets worse if more people are there in the picture. The boxes stay on the face for like 3 sec or so and one has to wait for it to disappear slowly to see the picture clearly. Unfortunately Orkut did not have the option to disable it.

PS: Orkut is another social networking site pretty famous in the South American and Indian subcontinent]]>Jul 2nd 2010 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/I think they need to blur out a lot more than faces in those vacation photos...
I can't beloved you would go to BadaBing Josh!]]>Jul 2nd 2010 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/I HATE HATE HATE face detection too! ... but out of curiousity, why would this be a factor in anyone quitting Facebook? :/]]>Jul 2nd 2010 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Face detection is another step closer to eliminate your full privacy. Imagine different photos are harvested and analyized by face detection and add to database without the consent of the victims.]]>Jul 2nd 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/If that's a concern of someone, then perhaps they shouldn't be uploading photos of themselves to the internet in the first place?

I think people can get very carried away with these big brother scenarios. ]]>Jul 2nd 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/
You sir, is exactly correct.]]>Jul 2nd 2010 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/But they can only be tagged by your friends, and can be un-tagged (permanently) by you. If someone is worried about having their personal stuff on the internet, then why on earth would that person be using a social network? It is what it is.]]>Jul 2nd 2010 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/"why would this be a factor in anyone quitting Facebook?"

PERVERTS!

Seriously though, I don't know. I never had an account and never will. ]]>Jul 2nd 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/
This doesn't recognize faces, it simply recognizes that there IS a face there, eliminating the need to place the box around the face. You simply tell facebook whose face it is and you may choose to leave it blank.]]>Jul 2nd 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/What are you afraid of exactly? It's to assist with tagging photos, not to inform MIBs of your unauthorised trip to the park.]]>Jul 2nd 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/... what's the Venezuelan political system got to do with Facebook tagging? Forgive my ignorance.]]>Jul 2nd 2010 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 3rd 2010 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/
Here's another example. You go to a party and some dumb ass takes a picture of themselves doing drugs and posts it to face book. You might have just been in the background or not even in the same picture but in another picture from the same party. I am sure most people would not want to be associated with a picture like that.

Here is another example. What happens if you were at an event such as a strip club not doing anything illegal but can be embarrassing and you are in the background of a photo someone else has taken. You get tagged in the photo.

From there it is a simple mater to do a search query for all the pictures that you are in. Facebook might even enable this as a search option. "Find pictures that this individual is in." Then guess what, all the photos that you might not want posted or didn't even knew existed but someone else has posted with you in it will show up.

And we know how facebook has a rock solid track record when it comes to privacy issues.]]>Jul 3rd 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/i suppose they announced it now just because they have perfected it. out of aplha testing :)]]>Jul 2nd 2010 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 4th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/]]>Jul 2nd 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/02/facebook-adds-face-detection-still-cant-identify-books/Jul 2nd 2010 3:07PM