Facebook's
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Team has developed a tool that can fool
the Facial Recognition System. This will prevent identifying anyone faces by mistake
from a video. This system is called 'de-identification' system. It also works
on live video. The main facial feature of a video's content is changed using
machine learning in the system.
A report
by famous tech website VentureBeat says, face recognition may cause privacy
issues. In addition, there may be abuse of technology such as changing the facial
appearance of the video. Facebook's new tool will prevent such type of misuse.
Earlier the de-identification system used on images.
This tool
will be presented at a conference called ‘International Conference on Computer
Vision’ in Seoul, South Korea, next week. The tool of facial recognition has
been announced when $ 35 billion class action lawsuit against Facebook is not
over.
According
to an IANS report, Facebook has had a $ 35 billion class-action lawsuit in the
US state of Illinois. Facebook requested to dismiss the facial recognition related
lawsuit case in the state. But a three-member of San Francisco judge panel
rejected Facebook’s appeal.
The
complaint stated that Facebook did not seek permission before identifying
people images by scanning of Illinois people. They did not even know how long
that information would be stored on Facebook. Facebook has begun mapping their
facial identities since the beginning of the 2011.
If
Facebook loses in this case, then they have to pay every person a fine from $
1,000 to $ 5,000. For total 7 million users FaceBook will have to pay around $ 35
from their pocket.
The judge
in the court said that facial recognition software violates a person's personal
affairs and factual preferences. This violates the Illinois Bio-metric Information Privacy Act.
Now we can
wait and see what’s going to happen next!
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