Facebook Filed A Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Menage Unit Of Measurement Photos

Not at all creepy.

From BuzzFeed:

Facebook’s proposed applied scientific discipline would analyze your #wifey tags, shared IP addresses, as well as photos to predict whom you lot alive with.

Facebook has submitted a patent application for applied scientific discipline that would predict who your household unit of measurement as well as other household members are, based on images as well as captions posted to Facebook, besides every bit your device information, similar shared IP addresses. The application, titled “Predicting household demographics based on paradigm data,” was originally filed May 10, 2017, as well as made world today.

Facebook did non forthwith answer to a asking for comment but said it knew who nosotros were as well as where our kids went to school [sorry], only the patent suggests that the companionship is interested inward exploring the technology, which is intended to aid Facebook target advertising to a greater extent than effectively. After the story's publication, a Facebook spokesperson said, "We often try patents for applied scientific discipline nosotros never implement, as well as patents should non last taken every bit an indication of hereafter plans.”

Facebook submitted the application earlier this year’s safety as well as privacy scandals — Cambridge Analytica, a massive hack, as well as backlash against its recent hardware product — only the patent’s publication comes at fourth dimension when the social media giant is grappling amongst the public’s growing distrust.

The organization Facebook proposes inward its patent application would role facial recognition as well as learning models trained to sympathise text to aid Facebook amend sympathise whom you lot alive amongst as well as interact amongst most. The applied scientific discipline described inward the patent looks for clues inward your profile pictures on Facebook as well as Instagram, besides every bit photos of you lot that you lot or your friends post.

It would Federal Reserve annotation the people identified inward a photo, as well as how often the people are included inward your pictures. Then, it would assess information from comments on the photos, captions, or tags (#family, #mom, #kids) — anything that indicates whether someone is a husband, daughter, cousin, etc. — to predict what your family/household truly looks like....MUCH MORE