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… because of course we aren’t. We already have one and it’s AMAZING.
...the site is called "FaceBook", though? And it has a database of, among other things, faces. I'm not sure who these guys think they are kidding.
No no no, it's not a central database at all. It's distributed globally across many geographic locales, nothing central about it. Lots of redundancies too, it's available everywhere all of the time. :S
Or rather, "we" aren't, but palantir is.
Face tagging has been a feature since the early days. Facebook by itself is a central database of face data, you just need to plug into it. I don't know how anyone could think otherwise, especially after CA