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Facebook's AI prevents you from being identified by face recognition tech

Facial recognition systems are all the rage among government agencies around the world, as they seek to automate services and keep tabs on their citizens.

If theres a picture of you somewhere, you could potentially be identified in photos and videos from public camera feeds.

You can see this in action in this video , in which certain details are tweaked, such as the shape of a persons mouth, or the size of their eyes.

For example, since the state of California banned law enforcement agencies from using facial recognition tech recently, it could mandate that all footage of civilians be processed using a system that incorporates face de-identification tech in order to protect their privacy.

Then the system generates distorted and undistorted images of a persons face for output that can be embedded into video.

The social network uses facial recognition to identify your friends in uploaded photos for easier tagging, and also to alert you when youre in someone elses pictures. The company turned facial recognition off by default last month, which is a small step towards respecting its users privacy a bit more.

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