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If it can't be fooled by a picture found online (but not uploaded to facebook) then that must mean facebook is indexing images across the internet and analysing all the faces they find... and if it can, what's the point (edit: from a user point of view)?

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To have the world's best biometric registry that is constantly updated and optimized by it's users.

Yes, I should have been more accurate in my original post - what's the point for the user :-)

This doesn't exist to benefit the user. This exists solely to benefit Facebook.

its users

You really ought to read the book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel) I hear the movies crap, but the book is perfect.

Yes, the movie is really crap. Didn't know it was based on a book. Will look forward to read it. Thanks.

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