“Can I say that we will never use facial recognition technology for any other purposes? Absolutely not. If we decided to use it in different ways we will continue to provide people transparency about that and we will continue to provide control.” Facebook has also updated its disclosure to clarify its relationship with third parties in the sharing of user data. “We may enable access to public information that has been shared through our services, or allow service providers to access information so they can help us provide services,” the disclosure helpfully reveals. Because users’ profile pictures are public, Facebook can use the photos to feed its controversial facial recognition technology, which, to date, has been limited to tagging photos to a user’s ID data so that they show up on public Facebook searches
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:29:29 +0000
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