Tag: Meta (Facebook)

young cute girl hipster, sitting at a cafe holding a smart phone, answering texts, phone calls, letters, posts photos in instagram, outdoor portrait, close up, elaborated and bracelets on the hands

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Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
November 19, 2021

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Social Media

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Andrew Klavan, Facebook, Frances Haugen, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta (Facebook), The Social Dilemma, Wall Street Journal (on Facebook/Meta)}

I’ve Been on Facebook for 13 Years. Here’s Why I’m Leaving Now.

_{Has Facebook actually improved the ways we connect with each other? And does Meta have a chance to improve upon that?} _{Caitlin Cory

November 19, 2021

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Arts & Culture, Social Media}

When I first joined Facebook in 2008, it was primarily a way to remain in contact with my dad while he was deployed overseas for a year. As I went through school, and then graduated and moved across the country for college, it became a way for me to connect with new and old friends. Now, thirteen years later, I am looking at deleting my Facebook. Here’s why: Last month, Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made waves when he announced the creation of a parent company over Facebook called “Meta.” The basic idea is what Zuckerberg calls “the next frontier” of the internet – a virtual reality in which people can engage in connection and creativity with one another. Read More ›

Machine learning systems and accurate facial recognition concept , smart phone with blue screen and blur human faces background

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Author
News
Date
November 4, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance

Tagged
DeepFace (Meta), Facebook (DeepFace), Facebook (facial recognition), Facebook (Meta), Jerome Pesenti, Meta (DeepFace), Meta (Facebook name change and sci fi), Meta (Facebook), Meta (facial recognition)}

Facebook (Meta) is strengthening, not dumping facial recognition

_{They’re getting rid of the annoying parts but read the fine print} _{News

November 4, 2021

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Business and Finance, Data Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance}

Jerome Pesenti, Facebook’s VP of Artificial Intelligence, explains the changes to the face recognition system that have accompanied the very recent brand name change from Facebook to Meta: In the coming weeks, Meta will shut down the Face Recognition system on Facebook as part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products. As part of this change, people who have opted in to our Face Recognition setting will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos, and we will delete the facial recognition template used to identify them. This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history. Jerome Pesenti, “An Update On Our Use of Read More ›