Facebook is testing face detection technology to wipe out fake accounts

With the ambition to wipe out malicious bots from its social networking platform, Facebook is still trying new tactics at a cost of up to millions of dollars. In their latest experiment, Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues decided to deploy facial / motion recognition technology testing to detect fake accounts.

This feature, developed by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, requires Facebook users to take selfies, record videos, and shake their heads side to side to verify that they are real, not bots.

'This test is one of the key factors we use to determine that an authenticated user is using an account, not a bot. Face recognition will not be the only method, we will apply additional motion detection technology to determine whether the face in the video is real or not. '

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If Facebook thinks a user account could be fake, they will send a notification asking the owner to send a short selfie video for verification. Developer Jane Manchun Wong also said her team is trying to improve authentication by the ID process. This new authentication method is expected by Facebook to help make the social networking environment more secure. In reality, however, this depends on whether users really feel comfortable sharing this relatively sensitive personal data with the company.

Facebook has yet to give exact information about the route to apply this feature on the world's largest social networking platform. However, the problem that many people still worry about is mainly about Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues will store, manage and use this amount of data. The above concerns are entirely based in the context of the illegal use of personal data of large technology companies in general, which is causing a worldwide problem, especially for a company. have had a lot of privacy concerns like Facebook.

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In a press release, a Facebook spokesperson said the company is currently testing the feature to evaluate its effectiveness in actual use before making a specific announcement on how to manage the amount of data. related materials.