It's possible to tell what kinds of objects are in your photos and identify your interests based on that. Here's some examples of the kinds of things that Facebook detects in your photos: Objects in your photos You can even learn how to implement this kind of system yourself using widely available open-source software. This isn't some technology that is 'coming soon', but this is something in wide-spread production use now by every major internet company. The goal is simply to make everyone aware of the kind of information that is routinely extracted from your own images today. Once you install it, all the photos you see on your Facebook timeline will automatically be overlaid with their tags, like this: This is a very simple Chrome Extension that I hacked together in a few minutes to make it easy to see the tags that Facebook is automatically applying to you and your friends' photos. There's nothing stopping them from using this information to show you relevant ads just based on photos of you - even if another user uploaded the photo and didn't even directly tag you! Facebook (and Google, Apple, Amazon, etc) can easily tell from your photographs if you have a pet dog, if you collect cameras, if you play golf, if you have children, or if you are just really into sunglasses. Who depend on screen readers which are only capable of processing text.īut I think a lot of internet users don't realize the amount of information that is now routinely extracted from photographs. It improves accessibility for blind users They are labeling your images using a Deep ConvNet
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