Facebook Face Recognition

Philippines
June 25, 2011 5:55pm CST
Anyone heard of this? I haven't tried it personally but I heard it's something like Picasa and that auto tags people on your photos based on facial recognition. Do you think it's creepy when it comes to privacy? I like it cause it saves me time tagging people. I'm not a celebrity anyway so I don't really care that much about the privacy. But how about the people you're tagging automatically? Well they always have an option to untag themselves. What do you think?
2 responses
• United States
26 Jun 11
Yeah, I think it's pretty creepy. I guess it will save people time but it's weird how it tags people automatically, I just imagine alot of confusion and complaints, if someone doesn't have a facebook but did before (deactivating it) and it recognizes them as someone else in a huge group of pictures haha.
@alphenor (686)
• Philippines
26 Jun 11
So that's what I experienced when I uploaded some pictures from my friendster (since it closed on May 30 and I don't have back-ups of the pics). It's a bit cool cause it can differentiate facial features but also creepy cause someone might be recording the data you've been typing. We don't know if that someone might be a potential stalker. .
• Philippines
26 Jun 11
I heard a lot of comments about it being creepy. You might just get tagged automatically by one of your friends who's using it and link you to someone, say, a criminal who looks like you. It's crazy! They might just mistaken you for someone else. That's what I'm worried about.
• United States
26 Jun 11
Eek, I'm worried about that too.
@cheravs (619)
• Philippines
26 Jun 11
Yes agree with "i am not a celebrity!".lol! It makes us easily to tag people so it's helping me. I don't have good looks anyway to be scared about this facial recognition since they can't use my pix for their own sake..haha!
• Philippines
26 Jun 11
Haha the hard part is, if they use your face for someone with criminal records. That sounds creepy but it's possible. I think it's okay as long as you only allow your close friends and relatives to auto tag you.