WARNING: Personal Data Mined From Facebook Photos
Turning off Facebook's facial-recognition system seems now that researchers have found you can identify people and gain personal information via face-recognition software and social media profiles.
Turning off Facebook’s facial-recognition system seems more critical than ever, now that a new study found that identifying people and gaining personal information via face-recognition software and social media profiles is a reality.
Carnegie Mellon University’s Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor of information technology and public policy at CMU’s Heinz College and a researcher in the university’s CyLab, said he and his research team — which also included CMU postdoctoral fellows Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman — used off-the-shelf face-recognition software, cloud computing, and publicly available information from social network sites to identify individuals and compile data on them.
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