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Researcher: Profile Pics on Social Networks a Privacy Risk

Alessandro Acquisti demonstrated how it’s becoming easier for strangers to identify people online. He applied off-the-shelf facial recognition tools to publicly available Facebook profile images to uniquely identify individuals. The trend has “ominous implications for privacy,” he says. Acquistsiti: Growing use of facial images on social media sites is enabling the creation of “personally predictable information” About 90% of Facebook members use their real name on their profiles, he says, and more than 4,900 were uniquely identified.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2129287/researcher–profile-pics-on-social-networks-a-privacy-risk.html

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