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Facebook is forcing new users to use facial recognition (lemmy.ml)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by Zeon@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I only want to use it for facebook marketplace, but jeez i didnt know they were taking it this far with this crap...

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[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

THIS!

I tried this to get an account. This was back in 2021. My account was deleted immediately. Probably a mixture of name and face. Maybe. But F that.

[–] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, I think they employ a pretty sophisticated bot detection algorithm. I vaguely remember there being this 'make 5 friends' objective, or something along those lines, which I had no intention of fulfilling. If a new account, having triggered the manual reviewing process, doesn't adhere to common usage patterns, simply have them supply additional information. Any collateral damage simply means additional data, to be appended to Facebook's self-profiling platform... I mean, what else would one expect when Facebook's first outside investor was Palentir's Peter Thiel?