Facebook has created a facial-recognition technology that is 83-percent accurate at identifying users. And it doesn’t need to see your face to identify you, which the company argues will assuage privacy concerns, New Scientist reports. Facebook’s Yann LeCunn “imagines such a tool would be useful for the privacy-conscious—alerting someone whenever a photo of themselves, however obscured, pops up on the Internet,” the report states. Not everyone agrees. The Christian Science Monitor suggests that “once a face is converted to data points and made machine-readable, it ceases being a public-facing part of ourselves that we voluntarily expose to others. It becomes a resource that others control.”
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