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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: orson on November 25, 2011, 01:49 pm

Title: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: orson on November 25, 2011, 01:49 pm
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??
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: avarice on November 25, 2011, 03:03 pm
did someone else put the pics up on facebook ?
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: orson on November 25, 2011, 03:20 pm
Nope I did - tripped me right out as they knew the exact location !!!

did someone else put the pics up on facebook ?
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: lrp72 on November 25, 2011, 03:24 pm
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?). 
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: orson on November 25, 2011, 03:31 pm
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?).
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: lrp72 on November 25, 2011, 05:15 pm
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
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: j789745 on November 25, 2011, 05:35 pm
FB is so creepy. I've vacillated back and forth on whether to keep mine for years... the Zuck always drags me back though. ;)
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: orson on November 25, 2011, 07:08 pm
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. ;)
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: PriscillaMarie90 on November 25, 2011, 08:25 pm
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.
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: j789745 on November 25, 2011, 08:34 pm
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. :-/
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: dutchshop on November 28, 2011, 03:35 am
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,
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: Woodsy the Drug Owl on November 29, 2011, 02:50 am
Read this.

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/palantir-the-vanguard-of-cyberterror-security-11222011.html
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: McGoober on November 29, 2011, 08:15 am
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.
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: GrumpyPigeon on November 29, 2011, 09:44 am
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 ;)
Title: Re: How the fuck did facebook know ???
Post by: McGoober on December 01, 2011, 12:29 am
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.