<story><title>Facebook turned on face recognition silently</title><url>https://imgur.com/a/tK8eW</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Which is why I do not want &lt;i&gt;anybody&lt;/i&gt; to make any pictures of me, especially not if they are active on social media. There are exactly two pictures of me online, the one is 30 years old, the other about 10. The quickest way to get me pissed off is to point a camera at me.</text></item><item><author>bjt2n3904</author><text>So, here&amp;#x27;s the weird catch-22. Or perhaps, the illusion of choice.&lt;p&gt;There are two people who are in a photo. One wishes Facebook to use face recognition, the other does not.&lt;p&gt;Facebook will run face recognition on the photo regardless, but how will they know who wants to be recognized, and who doesn&amp;#x27;t?&lt;p&gt;Simply, they have a model of your face already trained. And they recognize you in photos--you have no say whether or not they will. All this option does is hide the notifications when they do recognize you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>I find that a little bit sad.  Both of my parents have passed away (fairly young), and they were somewhat camera-shy when they were alive (not for the same reasons you are, but the result is the same).  I have barely a handful of photos of them, and that&amp;#x27;s often a source of disappointment and sadness for me.&lt;p&gt;I get that rampant data collection is unacceptable, and companies are terribly poor stewards of our personal data, but at the end of the day I have precious little in a visual sense with which to remember my parents.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s entirely reasonable to request that your friends not post pictures of you on social media, though, and get pissed at them when they ignore your wishes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook turned on face recognition silently</title><url>https://imgur.com/a/tK8eW</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>Which is why I do not want &lt;i&gt;anybody&lt;/i&gt; to make any pictures of me, especially not if they are active on social media. There are exactly two pictures of me online, the one is 30 years old, the other about 10. The quickest way to get me pissed off is to point a camera at me.</text></item><item><author>bjt2n3904</author><text>So, here&amp;#x27;s the weird catch-22. Or perhaps, the illusion of choice.&lt;p&gt;There are two people who are in a photo. One wishes Facebook to use face recognition, the other does not.&lt;p&gt;Facebook will run face recognition on the photo regardless, but how will they know who wants to be recognized, and who doesn&amp;#x27;t?&lt;p&gt;Simply, they have a model of your face already trained. And they recognize you in photos--you have no say whether or not they will. All this option does is hide the notifications when they do recognize you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyfon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m getting severe anxiety from having a camera pointed at me since this all Facebook stuff started and people posted pictures online. Needless to say, I don&amp;#x27;t have an account there.&lt;p&gt;I also take off the moment I see a camera unless the shooter in advance ask me if it&amp;#x27;s ok and they agree to not put it online. Unfortunately I can&amp;#x27;t do anything about CCTV but that&amp;#x27;s not posted online at least.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s to the point where I avoid social settings with a lot of unknown people and generally stay with my wife and kids. Not that that is a bad think, I&amp;#x27;m quite happy to be with them :)</text></comment>