Facial Recognition - AllFacebook

Facial Recognition - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:38:06 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Admits That Privacy Changes Have Been Confusing

One of the chief complaints among Facebook users is that the changes to privacy controls have been far too confusing, with little effort in educating the users. Facebook’s No. 2 official — Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg — agrees. She admitted during a launch party in London for her book, Lean In, that one of the key mistakes the company has made was not explaining privacy controls better.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/sandberg-privacy-london-event_b115684#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/sandberg-privacy-london-event_b115684 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115684 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:23:00 +0000 Beyond Facebook’s Makeover: If Text Is ‘Dead,’ How Will Advertisers (Finally) Start Monetizing Photos?

Remember the kindergarten game, “Show and Tell?” Based on its more mobile-friendly News Feed redesign, it appears that Facebook will now be more show than tell — or, to be more precise, it will be burying the tell in billions of pictures. The shift to a “personal newspaper” format with larger and more prominent photo displays is a response to photo-driven behavior that has rapidly changed the social media landscape. Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says 50 percent of all posts are now pictures, double the amount from just one year ago.

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]]> Guest Writer http://allfacebook.com/pongr-jamie-thompson-guest-post_b114097#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/pongr-jamie-thompson-guest-post_b114097 http://allfacebook.com/?p=114097 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:22:55 +0000 McAfee Social Protection Facebook Photos App Launches For Android

Computer security software provider McAfee announced that its McAfee Social Protection application, which launched in free public beta for Windows users (Internet Explorer 8 or higher and Firefox 8 and higher) last August, is now available via Google Play for Android devices.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/mcafee-social-protection-android_b111460#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mcafee-social-protection-android_b111460 http://allfacebook.com/?p=111460 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:31:46 +0000 Facebook Deletes Facial-Recognition Data In Europe

Facebook’s tag suggest feature and use of facial-recognition technology is moving in different directions on opposite sides of the globe, as the social network reintroduced the feature in the U.S. last week, while at the same time deleting all facial-recognition data in Europe, where tag suggest has been disabled since last October.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/europe-facial-recognition-data-deleted_b110321#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/europe-facial-recognition-data-deleted_b110321 http://allfacebook.com/?p=110321 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:29:40 +0000 How To Disable Facebook’s Tag Suggest

Facebook last week quietly reintroduced its tag suggest feature, which uses facial-recognition technology to assist users in tagging their friends in photos. So, what can users do in order to avoid being tagged in photos that they do not wish to be tagged in?

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/how-to-disable-tag-suggest_b109975#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/how-to-disable-tag-suggest_b109975 http://allfacebook.com/?p=109975 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:03:22 +0000 Facebook Brings Back Tag Suggest Facial Recognition For Photos In U.S. Facebook’s controversial tag suggest feature for photos, which was temporarily suspended last year amid concerns over the use of facial-recognition technology, is being re-enabled in the U.S., the social network announced in a post on its Facebook and Privacy page.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/tag-suggest-facial-recognition-us_b109791#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/tag-suggest-facial-recognition-us_b109791 http://allfacebook.com/?p=109791 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:43:34 +0000 BOOK REVIEW: ‘Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness’ Is A Must

Newton Lee’s book, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness, is a great book for social media experts, offering a comprehensive look at Facebook in the context of social media, and covering privacy well.

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]]> Will M http://allfacebook.com/book-review-facebook-nation_b108505#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/book-review-facebook-nation_b108505 http://allfacebook.com/?p=108505 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:54:36 +0000 Nine Important Facts About Facebook Photo Sync

Now that Facebook’s photo sync feature has officially been rolled out for iOS and Android users, what should users of the social network know about it? Sophos’ Naked Security blog offered a primer.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/nine-important-facts-about-facebook-photo-sync_b105912#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/nine-important-facts-about-facebook-photo-sync_b105912 http://allfacebook.com/?p=105912 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:42:17 +0000 Regulator In Hamburg, Germany, Still Squawking Over Facebook, Facial Recognition

Facebook appeared to have settled concerns within the European Union over its use of facial-recognition technology with Friday’s announcement of an agreement between the social network and Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, but the memo apparently never made it to Hamburg, Germany.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/hamburg-germany-facial-recognition_b100422#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/hamburg-germany-facial-recognition_b100422 http://allfacebook.com/?p=100422 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:20:46 +0000 Facebook Scraps Tag Suggest Facial-Recognition Feature In EU, Gets Thumbs Up From Ireland DPC

Irish eyes (and those of the rest of the European Union) are finally smiling on Facebook, as Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner announced that “the great majority” of the privacy recommendations it made to the social network to keep it in compliance with those of the EU have been “fully implemented to the satisfaction of this office.” The major concession by Facebook: Its tag suggest feature, which enabled facial recognition for Facebook photos, has been turned off for all new users in the EU, with existing users to lose access to the feature by Oct. 15.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/ireland-dpc-tag-suggest-facial-recognition_b100285#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/ireland-dpc-tag-suggest-facial-recognition_b100285 http://allfacebook.com/?p=100285 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:39:56 +0000 Lambda Labs Comes To The Rescue Of Developers That Used Face.com Facial-Recognition APIs

The 45,000-plus developers that previously used facial-recognition application-programming interfaces from Face.com and saw those APIs shuttered after the company was acquired by Facebook may have an alternative via startup Lambda Labs.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/lambda-labs-facial-recognition-api_b98858#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/lambda-labs-facial-recognition-api_b98858 http://allfacebook.com/?p=98858 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:41:19 +0000 McAfee Social Protection Facebook App Officially Launches As Free Public Beta

McAfee Tuesday officially announced the launch of a free public beta version of McAfee Social Protection, a new Facebook application and browser plugin that displays users’ Facebook photos as blurs, which can only be displayed properly once users’ friends have installed McAfee Social Protection.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/mcafee-social-protection-free-public-beta_b98445#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/mcafee-social-protection-free-public-beta_b98445 http://allfacebook.com/?p=98445 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:45:08 +0000 Germany Investigating Facebook’s Facial Recognition, Again

Europeans are growing increasingly suspicious of Facebook’s facial-recognition efforts. Earlier this month, Norway announced that it is looking into the legality of the social network’s technology. Now, Germany is doing the same. Data-protection officials in Germany worry that Facebook is compiling a photo database of users without their consent, so they are reopening their investigation.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/germany-facial-recognition_b97338#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/germany-facial-recognition_b97338 http://allfacebook.com/?p=97338 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:06:58 +0000 Redpepper’s Facedeals Combines Facebook Check-Ins, Facial Recognition, Cameras

What do you get when you combine check-ins, facial-recognition technology, and small cameras? If you’re advertising and marketing agency Redpepper , you get Facedeals.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/redpepper-facedeals_b96955#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/redpepper-facedeals_b96955 http://allfacebook.com/?p=96955 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:22:31 +0000 Norway To Examine Facebook Facial Recognition

Facebook’s facial-recognition feature is coming under scrutiny in another country, as the Norwegian Data Protection Agency said it will launch an investigation this fall and speak with the social network about the technology behind it.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/norway-facial-recognition_b96442#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/norway-facial-recognition_b96442 http://allfacebook.com/?p=96442 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:05:37 +0000