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by Throw_Away_4382 2481 days ago
Can you actually check every photo that is up-loaded to social media? And can't you change your appearance to fool the program?
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Facebook'll do it for you. Create a profile, upload a few photos of the subject, and they may start alerting you that you've been tagged in others' photos.

https://www.facebook.com/help/122175507864081

> Here are some examples of how Facebook may use face recognition:

> Let you know when you might appear in photos or videos but haven't been tagged.

The false positives on that would be insane, they must only check friends (maybe also friends of tagged users)
I've had it come up from friends-of-friends, at least.

A good investigator is likely gonna find that a few friends-of-friends of the "deceased" play Mafia Wars and accept every friend request.