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Thread #168812   Message #4077474
Posted By: leeneia
30-Oct-20 - 01:35 PM
Thread Name: Tech: How Fakebook follows you around
Subject: RE: Tech: How Fakebook follows you around
This NBC article says that the photo database doesn't store the names of the people in the photograph. To verify, do a search on "name." It's the 4th occurrence.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921

Me, I would have put that fact in the first paragraph.