Date:30/11/17
Facebook appears to be preparing to launch a new kind of captcha which asks users to prove their identities by uploading photos of their faces.
At least some users reported encountering a prompt asking them to "upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face," accompanied by a guarantee that Facebook would "check it and then permanently delete it from our servers." A Facebook spokesperson said that the new system was intended to "help us catch suspicious activity at various points of interaction on the site, including creating an account, sending Friend requests, setting up ads payments, and creating or editing ads."
Users appear to be locked out until Facebook verifies the photo is legitimate, a process which is automatic and compares submitted photos to others on the site to ensure it's not a duplicate or a fake.
Rumors of such a system have been circulating since at least April , when several users posted in a thread on Reddit's r/socialmedia board saying they had encountered a nearly identical roadblock to logging in.
Other tech giants like Apple have implemented new forms of facial recognition for security purposes, though Apple's Face ID for iPhone X relies on a 3D scan of users' faces and thus is presumably harder to trick.
While some users are likely to be creeped out by Facebook asking them to feed it selfies to log in, the reality is that the site already has an Orwellian stockpile of information on members-such as years' worth of embarrassing photos, awkward statuses, the content of direct messages, cell phone numbers, addresses, and credit card information. Hey, at least it's a little less off-putting than Facebook's pilot program to fight revenge porn, which involves having users actually send in the nude photos or videos to the site to have them pre-emptively blocked.
Facebook May Soon Demand a Selfie if It Detects Suspicious Activity on Your Account
Facebook appears to be preparing to launch a new kind of captcha which asks users to prove their identities by uploading photos of their faces.At least some users reported encountering a prompt asking them to "upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face," accompanied by a guarantee that Facebook would "check it and then permanently delete it from our servers." A Facebook spokesperson said that the new system was intended to "help us catch suspicious activity at various points of interaction on the site, including creating an account, sending Friend requests, setting up ads payments, and creating or editing ads."
Users appear to be locked out until Facebook verifies the photo is legitimate, a process which is automatic and compares submitted photos to others on the site to ensure it's not a duplicate or a fake.
Rumors of such a system have been circulating since at least April , when several users posted in a thread on Reddit's r/socialmedia board saying they had encountered a nearly identical roadblock to logging in.
Other tech giants like Apple have implemented new forms of facial recognition for security purposes, though Apple's Face ID for iPhone X relies on a 3D scan of users' faces and thus is presumably harder to trick.
While some users are likely to be creeped out by Facebook asking them to feed it selfies to log in, the reality is that the site already has an Orwellian stockpile of information on members-such as years' worth of embarrassing photos, awkward statuses, the content of direct messages, cell phone numbers, addresses, and credit card information. Hey, at least it's a little less off-putting than Facebook's pilot program to fight revenge porn, which involves having users actually send in the nude photos or videos to the site to have them pre-emptively blocked.
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