Is Facebook’s ’10-Year Challenge’ meme a creepy facial recognition gambit?

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By now, all of your social media feeds are probably brimming with then-and-now pictures showing the “glow-up” or positive transformations of people — including celebrities, friends, family or random folks — sharing decade-old images of themselves, alongside current photographs.

Although the meme that’s proliferated on FacebookInstagram and Twitter is a great way to show how much you’ve changed over the years, and users are freely sharing the images, one technologist and follower of the meme pondered whether the entire challenge was actually something more sinister and sparked a discussion about the technology in the process.

Kate O’Neill, who authored a book called “Tech Humanist,” went on to theorize that, if you were training a facial recognition program on age-related traits, it would be useful to have a large data set taken at a fixed number of years apart.

“Thanks to this meme, there’s now a very large data set of carefully curated photos of people from 10 years ago and now. Is it bad that someone could use it to train a facial recognition algorithm? Not necessarily,” O’Neill said on Twitter, noting that such technology could be used to find missing children.- READ MORE

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