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Facial recognition company builds a database from social media
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Facial recognition company builds a database from social media
A software company runs an automated image scraper across the internet to detect images containing human faces on social media, stores them with source URL, geolocation and sometimes names, and converts the facial features into mathematical representations against which an uploaded photo can be matched.
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