{"id":41509,"date":"2013-02-11T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=41509"},"modified":"2013-02-11T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:31:27","slug":"how-facebook-knows-what-you-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/how-facebook-knows-what-you-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"How Facebook Knows What You Look Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>by Dan O&#8217;Halloran for Techlicious<\/p>\n<h4>How Facebook Knows What You Look Like<\/h4>\n<p>Back in 2010, Facebook announced the implementation of facial recognition technology to help its users identify their friends in uploaded photos. The idea was for better tagging of those pictures, but what it really did was stir up outrage at yet another move by the social network to connect us to other people&#8217;s activity without our consent.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook tweaked it repeatedly, but finally yanked it last year. And now it&#8217;s back. Facebook announced the return of its facial recognition feature and, of course, you&#8217;re automatically opted in unless you change your settings to block it.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/facebook-facial-recognition-540px.jpg\" alt=\"facebook-facial-recognition-540px\" width=\"540\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/facebook-facial-recognition-540px.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/facebook-facial-recognition-540px-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techlicious.com\/blog\/the-return-of-facebook-facial-recognition\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s the downside of Facebook&#8217;s new technology? Article Continued Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt appears with the permission of Techlicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb_facialrec.jpg\" alt=\"fb_facialrec\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb_facialrec.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb_facialrec-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facebook has announced the return of its facial recognition feature. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[671],"tags":[216,4402],"class_list":["post-41509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techlicious","tag-facebook","tag-facial-recognition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Facebook Knows What You Look Like<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Facebook has announced the return of its facial recognition feature. 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