Facebook and iPhone Do Facial Recognition

RecognizeMe, an iPhone App That Does Face Recognition with Biometric Technology Using Front Facing Camera

RecognizeMe is the first Facial Recognition security for the iPhone. Although not perfect, RecognizeMe does a pretty good job at facial recognition, given optimal conditions. RecognizeMe sits on the iPhone passcode screen, so it serves as an alternate to, rather than a replacement for, the passcode.

May 19, 2011

ACSysBiometrics.com - If you are looking for an app that gives you that uberly cool vibe and where you can show it to your girlfriends, then RecognizeMe is one of the best answers for that.

The developer claimed that this is the first of it’s kind for iPhone where it uses Biometric technology to finalize the recognition security process by harnessing the power of iPhone’s front facing camera.

What’s more, to be important is that the app is being developed in a jailbroken environment where it is only available at Cydia, giving that another milestone of achievements for the iOS jailbreak community.

You can check out the app where it will be available soon in the next 24 hours with the pricing at $6.99, below is a Youtube video demonstrating of how the app works.

Facebook Turns on Facial Recognition for Tagging By Default

June 7, 2011

Mashable.com - If you have a bunch of tag-happy Facebook friends, you may want to read this. Facebook has been rolling out a facial recognition feature that makes it easier to tag friends in snaps, and it has introduced this feature as a default setting.

We first heard about Tag Suggestions back in December.

The feature basically means that whenever you’re offered the chance to tag groups of your friends in an album, Facebook will use its facial recognition technology to group similar faces together and automatically suggest the friend you should tag them with.

The option has been rolling out to international users over the past few months, and according to a report from Sophos, the social networking site has been making the facial recognition feature a default setting. Facebook explained the rollout in a post on Tuesday.

If you don’t want Facebook to suggest you when your friends go to tag everyone in that picture from last week’s naked mud-wrestling pool party, here’s how you disable the feature:

1. Go to your privacy settings.
2. Click “Customize settings.”
3. Scroll down to “Things others share.”
4. Find “Suggest photos of me to friends.”
5. Edit accordingly.

Although this is an easy fix, we can see some privacy-focused users getting peeved about the option being turned on without their knowledge. And this wouldn’t be the first time Facebook has turned on a feature without users’ consent (heck, we even wrote an entire guide to Facebook’s privacy features).

What do you think of this latest change?