As a reminder, Facebook users can choose to turn facial recognition on or off at any time,” it said on Twitter. “Sure, you could mine Facebook for profile pictures and look at posting dates or EXIF data. But that whole set of profile pictures could end up generating a lot of useless noise. A quick glance through my Facebook friends’ profile pictures shows a friend’s dog who just died, several cartoons, word images, abstract patterns, and more,” O’Neil wrote. The data users provide is the fuel for tech companies like Facebook and Google.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 25, 2019 17:26 UTC