Facebook secretly made a very dangerous application that was thought to do facial recognition for its employees, but also for their friends who use the social network, according to some information that appeared today. Facebook developed the application for employees who should have used it, theoretically, for internal use, and with its help those who work for the American company could be recognized by a simple analysis of the face.
Facebook developed the application for facial recognition of people between 2015 and 2016, and according to the information that appeared, it would never have been launched publicly, although it is not known what happened to the existing technologies in it. The application could do facial recognition for Facebook employees, their friends, so theoretically any person, but it was necessary for those persons to have some identification information in the company's databases.
Facebook has made the most DANGEROUS Application for Phones
Facebook admitted that it developed this application, but denied that it was ever released publicly, and also stated that since 2016 its development was stopped, without knowing what happened to its technologies. The biggest problem here is what happened to the artificial intelligence that was trained by Facebook for more than a year to recognize people based only on the face, which is extremely important.
Facebook says that it stopped developing the application in 2016, and that it did not use it beyond its offices, but in reality it is difficult to say how exactly everything was used, and how many people the application was actually used by. Considering that friends of Facebook employees were used in this project, we will probably never find out the truth about this experiment that was done by the Americans to improve facial recognition systems.
Facebook has been heavily criticized for not protecting the privacy of its users well enough, and what we see now is new proof that some rumors are completely true.
