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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: orson on November 25, 2011, 01:49 pm
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Hey Peeps,
Just thought I would ask this question as it has been bothering me bit time, and I can't work out how the fuck they did it.
Basically last week while I was on facebook, down the right hand side a few of my pics popped up and facebook asked me was this picture taken at 'where ever', and fuck me it was bang on each time, how the hell does facebook know a picture of a friend & I was taken at this random hotel??
All the pictures where taken on a professional cam, so no geotagging etc
To be honest it worried me, has this happened to anyone else??
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did someone else put the pics up on facebook ?
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Nope I did - tripped me right out as they knew the exact location !!!
did someone else put the pics up on facebook ?
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It happens all the time, don't worry. FB has some facial recognition features, and that, combined with their "places" feature allows them to put 2 and 2 together pretty slickly (is that a word?).
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lol it could be a word !!
I am just going to close down my facebook account, I just don't like the way it is going - just a massive government data collecting tool >:(
It happens all the time, don't worry. FB has some facial recognition features, and that, combined with their "places" feature allows them to put 2 and 2 together pretty slickly (is that a word?).
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Don't blame you a bit. I know lots of folks that have felt the same way as you and have left. I don't trust what Zuckerburg does with all his mass amounts of info at all, but how else will I see my grandchild grow up? LOL
Signed,
Party Grandma
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FB is so creepy. I've vacillated back and forth on whether to keep mine for years... the Zuck always drags me back though. ;)
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I know what you mean lol - I am going to stop using my personal page, but the main issue I have is that I have a fan page with over 500 members so kinda need to keep that going...... O well looks like Mark has me by the short & curlys :-\
FB is so creepy. I've vacillated back and forth on whether to keep mine for years... the Zuck always drags me back though. ;)
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Yeah, Facebook is doing all they can to display every ounce of information about every person alive on the world wide web. Think about it, if they had gone through with the Facial Recognition thing that would auto-tag everyone in every photo you ever posted, you could go out and take a photo of ANYONE. An old highschool crush, the cashier at Starbucks, some random girl you've never met, and with the simple click of a button you could know everything there is to know about them.
It's pretty fucked up.
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Yeah, Facebook is doing all they can to display every ounce of information about every person alive on the world wide web. Think about it, if they had gone through with the Facial Recognition thing that would auto-tag everyone in every photo you ever posted, you could go out and take a photo of ANYONE. An old highschool crush, the cashier at Starbucks, some random girl you've never met, and with the simple click of a button you could know everything there is to know about them.
It's pretty fucked up.
I never even thought about that! Its actually kind of creepy that such technology exists, even if not directly being utilized by Facebook at the moment, because that doesn't mean the people with this technology can't utilize Facebook's massive database. :-/
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Just typ... FACEBOOK ...CIA.... in google and about the information or video comes up about the key search word you will get shocked... :-[ .
Greets DutchShop,
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Read this.
http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/palantir-the-vanguard-of-cyberterror-security-11222011.html
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This makes me glad that I've resisted getting a FB account. Ever since I heard it got bought by Rupert Murdoch I've stayed away.
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This makes me glad that I've resisted getting a FB account. Ever since I heard it got bought by Rupert Murdoch I've stayed away.
Murdoch never bought Facebook. Facebook is owned by Facebook ;)
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This makes me glad that I've resisted getting a FB account. Ever since I heard it got bought by Rupert Murdoch I've stayed away.
Murdoch never bought Facebook. Facebook is owned by Facebook ;)
I think Facebook is owned by NewsCorp though. I don't like that Zuckerberg weirdo, either. I don't think he really made the site himself.