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Facebook wants to keep your face , literally. The world's most popular social network - and the one that has been subjected to the most scandals - is developing a new and controversial formula for user identification based on facial recognition.

The social network is developing a system to authenticate its users that, imitating the protocol of police records, forces users to face , turn their heads to check both profiles and look up and down when starting session.

In addition, in parallel, I would also be working on a system based on photography , where users should take a photo to verify the authenticity of your account .

This is a new feature discovered by programmer Jane Manchun Wong who, through a reverse engineering exercise , has discovered these new developments in the Facebook code.

Faced with the controversy caused by the discovery, Facebook has clarified that it is a system that is in the testing phase but "does not use a facial recognition system" and that it is simply a system that detects movement to ensure that it is A human being and not a bot.

Also, Facebook notes that "nobody else" will watch the video and it will be deleted automatically after 30 days .

However, it would not be the first time that Facebook misuses its data by even skipping its own privacy policies, such as when it shared without permission the data of its users with Amazon, Netflix and Microsoft, in addition to other companies.

A transfer of data that allowed even Netflix and Spotify to read the content of private conversations between users of the social network.

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