Instagram to block fake profiles ‘video selfie’ started the verification. The platform, which requested a video in which the head was turned in different directions from the users, drew the reaction of those who were concerned about privacy. In early November, Meta announced that it would shut down the facial recognition system it uses on Facebook and delete more than 1 billion templates from the systems.
Although Meta has turned off facial recognition on Facebook, the video selfie verification it has enabled on Instagram has caused confusion. The company, which made relevant statements from its official social media accounts, announced that the new system not to be confused with face recognition He also explained his purpose in detail.
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Managed by Instagram’s PR team @InstagramComms account made statements on Twitter after the reactions. Not using face recognition stating that the social media company, video selfie verification behind an account Is it a bot or a human? He said he started it to understand.
Instagram doesn’t use facial recognition, and we don’t use it for video selfies either. We launched video selfies over a year ago to help verify that an account is a person and not a bot.
One of the reasons we use video selfies is because we think an account might be a bot. For example, if the account likes a lot of posts or follows a lot of accounts in a few seconds, video selfies will help us determine if there is a real person behind the account.
The most important confusion regarding selfie verification is privacy concern it happened. Touching on this, Instagram stated that it will not keep the video sent by users permanently. “Our teams review video selfies and video selfies are deleted within 30 days.” shared his knowledge.
Instagram does not currently require video selfie verification from everyone. As the company states, repeatedly following many accounts or those who like the posts verification is activated to detect that they are not spam. The user who sent the requested video is being reviewed by the teams and if it is found to be real, the ban will be removed from his account.
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In addition to the video selfie, Instagram sometimes sending an identity card may be subject to a more stringent verification process, such as In some cases, just e-mail or phone verification is enough.