Facebook Facial Recognition: A New Take on it Via the Klik App - lasalleflar1946

Just when you thinking you were safe from Facebook's facial recognition software, at that place's a new app in town using the social networking site to tag photos mechanically. It's named Klik, and is every number as creepy as the external body part recognition software that Facebook tried to usance.

Klik allows you tag friends and locations, and add captions directly in the app.

Available for the iPad and iPhone, Klik connects to your Facebook profile and scans the pictures of your tagged friends. Klik will then auto-detect the faces using that tagging entropy, and does so like a sho when taking pictures from the app or from pictures in your photo library on your iDevices. To use Klik, you need a Facebook account, and iOS 4.3 or supra.

In my personal tests, I found the face recognition to be creepily accurate, although the photo needs to be pretty clear and the faces in the image pointed at the television camera for best results.

When Klik cannot match the face to a supporter, information technology asks for the user to tag that person. In the current picture-taking option, a question stigmatize appears above the someone's straits with an option to help Klik 'check' the face. The learning feature is not available when using pictures from your photo depository library, which forced me to shred those photos manually. That negated the app's niftiness.

The finished product, complete with filters.

Erst the picture is taken and the people tagged, Klik gives the pick to add filters to the depiction like Instagram does, as well atomic number 3 the option to sum up the names of tagged people on the photo itself. To boot to Facebook, users send away share photos in public on Klik's website, through Twitter, and by e-mail.

Peradventur Useful, But Still Creepy

Klik is a cool off app, simply has the same seclusion concerns atomic number 3 Facebook's face recognition does. IT is non clear what the app does with chase after data from detected faces, and whether or not it stores this information: If it does, that English hawthorn beryllium too invasive for some. Klik besides combs through you and your friend's photos. While you may own no problem with what it does here, chances are that one of your friends does.

I do conceive the app has a place for patronize Facebook photographers and taggers. It makes a tedious swear out a fairly simple nonpareil. At the aforesaid time, some people don't require anybody only friends going through their Facebook entropy, and we must respect that.

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