Why Facebook mined your selfies and food photos
Even your selfies and brunch photos aren’t safe from the long arm of Facebook, it was revealed overnight, as the tech giant admitted it had taken billions of photos from Instagram accounts around the world to boost its own research. More than 3.5 billion photographs were harvested from the photo-sharing platform without users’ knowledge, chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer told the audience at the company's annual developers' conference F8, revealing they had been used to enhance the company’s artificial intelligence technology.
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