New Profile Pic and Updated Bio

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You Have a Facebook Facial Recognition Number

A unique number has been assigned to the face of each account.  From the help page:

Facial Recognition Data – A unique number based on a comparison of the photos you’re tagged in. We use this data to help others tag you in photos.

We currently use facial recognition software that uses an algorithm to calculate a unique number (“template”) based on someone’s facial features, like the distance between the eyes, nose and ears. This template is based on your profile pictures and photos you’ve been tagged in on Facebook

This is “Tag Suggest“.

Last week, I downloaded my Facebook account archive, to see what was included in it (how to here).  Below is my face when I found this face number, imagination going wild.

Because really, Facebook is the world’s largest biometric database.

And its entire contents were not only submitted voluntarily, but tagged and identified as well. Someone is going to sleep laughing each night.

Facebook updated their privacy policy at the end of the summer, to account for some more powerful software, for a better “Tag Suggest”.

Some countries are not okay with this, Germany’s pretty upset. They’ve been pushing back for a while wait, I may have blogged this hang on….. yup here: October ’12. There’s much debate about to who and how access is granted, to this database.

I’m not 100%, and the test I conducted was only so-so, but it appears that in Canada, we can’t turn off “Tag Suggest”.

Here’s the Facebook help page, “Turn OFF Tag Suggest“. It says the last item below is where to disable the feature (purple asterisk).

Below are my settings, “unavailable”.

Ugh. Unavailable. Eye roll.

Here tag this.

 

 

I Have the Biggest Blog Block

Part of it is the time of year, the gray season, that’s trackable on here for years, but also…  you might say, ‘Keri doesn’t talk online a lot, Twitter and FB etc’, but for me, this is a lot of talking. In real life, I’m pretty quiet.  Like, ‘make it through entire dinner parties without speaking’ quiet.  And sometimes I just don’t feel like talking, let alone so publicly.   Yes I realize the dichotomy of having a blog and being like that. Gave up years ago trying to figure out why, then 200 videos & thousands of posts later, still don’t know.

It’ll pass, it always does.  There’ll be a 5th Anniversary blog party next year.

And I have so much going on, and have been run down and exhausted keeping up; this last quiet week has been good for me.  I look better too, puffed back out less haggard.  I wish they taught time management in school.

My Autonet articles have been fun lately, click here to read them.

Lastly, although I haven’t blogged much recently, I’ve still been documenting.  That is hard to turn off.  Not sure I’d want to.

Here’s some recent photos.

Thanks for always checking in. Appreciate it more than you probably realize.

Love,
Keri

Shots like the one make me miss having a huge header at the top of my blog.

Going to bring it back when I re-build KeriBlog. Which, remember when I shut down everything to do that?  Way too ambitious, couldn’t be done, it’s a bigger project than I anticapated.  It’s making me insane and invading my dreams.  Plus my phone is freezing, my computer is on shaky ground, it’s all a mess and adding to the blog block.

This week’s flowers. And top 3 favourite smells.

Thinking this would make a killer night-out outfit: cream mini-dress, ridiculous platforms, small chain purse worn crossways, lots of ghetto gold.

New profile pic.

Got some members for some strangers families.

Note the despondent dramatics, by how I’m about to blog a fortune cookie message I got.


Been using Android more and more. I get why people love it.

Have a Blackberry 10 review coming up (short answer – it’s solid).

That’s that’s it for now the end.

 

 

Getting the Knack of the New Curling Method

Here I am, showing you that.

Or maybe, this post is just an excuse to communicate the number 52, hmm. Or, show off my new shirt, that was $25 (which is silk, I’m good at deal finding).

Nooo this is just a reminder, of the face behind the blog.

New profile pic.

Posts Coming Soon:

– It’s the LA Auto Show this week
– More proof for my prediction: thought-controlled computing, is closer than ever
– Stuff I’ve been up to, places I went
– It’s a good idea to monitor incoming connections