Personally, I think facial recognition is the faster and better option than the fingerprint scanner, but not at this moment as most Android manufacturers' version is not as versatile as Apple's since the iPhone can even unlock with the owner wearing a flu mask or in a low-light environment, for example. Then in the smartphone industry, facial recognition is improving steadily to protect your data privacy. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that a kid's face can drastically change within days without proper care, but it's a good thing that the age progression algorithm can determine if it's the same person or not. According to the Independent, a news publisher from the UK, the New Delhi police managed to find 3000 missing kids within four days with the help of facial recognition. Like those sci-fi or crime movies that use facial recognition, it's actually a real thing right now that the police are using to help track down missing children. Facial recognition can be used for many, many things. So case's closed, right? Not yet, the usage of facial recognition is more than just from unlocking your smartphone or profile.
As a friendly reminder, Facebook users can also choose not to use facial recognition as well. Obviously, Facebook already has access to all your photos, but digging into them takes a long time, so why not have the users do the work for you with the meme trend setting the picture side by side? It gets better - it's set 10 years apart, a good figure number for the algorithm and thanks to the hashtag, it's easy to gather the data there.Īgain, this is just a conspiracy theory and Facebook claimed that they have nothing to do with the meme trend and gains nothing from it.
The conspiracy theory is that, imagine yourself as a Facebook engineer and you're tasked with how to collect data on users' facial recognition on age progression and for the system's algorithm. "BUT TECHNAVE, FACEBOOK ALREADY HAVE MY PHOTOS, WHY WOULD IT BE DANGEROUS?" We heard you loud and clear, I thought about this too and even Kate wrote it's not as dangerous as she puts it, hence - a conspiracy theory. Me now: ponders how all this data could be mined to train facial recognition algorithms on age progression and age recognition Me 10 years ago: probably would have played along with the profile picture aging meme going around on Facebook and Instagram Started off by Kate O'Neill from her Twitter post, she sarcastically pondered about "how all this data could be mined to train facial recognition algorithm on age progression and age recognition." Yes, the same facial recognition that smartphone brands have been implementing ever since Apple started the technology trend with its 3D Face Recognition two years ago with the iPhone X series, but in Facebook's case, it's another story. So here's a TLDR version of the #10YearsChallenge pros and cons. Well, upon reading this interesting conspiracy theory, it's both yes and no. Danger? I mean, isn't it a harmless meme trend? After all - your friends and family are just having fun comparing themselves on how they looked like 10 years ago.
So your Facebook and Instagram wall is filled with the #10YearsChallenge posts, at the same time, you might also see a minority posting about the "dangers" of jumping on the bandwagon.