Imaging recource: Facebook wants to be able to ‘fingerprint’ a single image to any one of its 1.5B users

In the age of the internet and always-connected devices true privacy (and anonymity) is becoming harder and harder to come by. Thankfully, more often than not, there are means by which we can protect our privacy and adhere to anonymity through the removal of data; particularly geolocation and other information integrated into the metadata of many of the photos we take. But, those days might be gone — or, at the very least, more difficult to come by — if a new patent from Facebook comes to fruition. According to Patent Publication US 20150124107, Facebook...
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