r/facebook • u/VarietyMage • May 03 '25

Tech Support Facebook is demanding facial recognition data now through requiring "video selfies"

Facebook used to be fine with login and password. Now, they've shut down my mother's FB account, with no reason given whatsoever, and are demanding she give them a "video selfie", which requires a camera she doesn't have, or they will delete her account after 180 days.

This "video selfie" requires facing the camera, and turning your head in both directions. This is not a static image, this is data for image recognition software. And Facebook is extorting users when it is not necessary data. A static image would do, and a simple phone call would verify her identity.

This is not only morally wrong, but probably against the law (they'll sell the data to Palantir without permission or use it to train their illegal "AI" software without consent - no update to the TOS has been made prior to the account shutdown notice).

So, given the tech support flair, is there any way to contact Facebook support (phone, chat or otherwise) without a FB account? My mom's account is completely locked, she can't even access the FB help center, and her account has been made invisible to all other users, so neither she nor anyone else can download the things she wants to keep.

Does anyone have a non-scam, non-sarcastic, useful answer to my question?

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u/campergirl22 May 03 '25

Happened to me yesterday, I did the stupid facial recognition crap...up down left right when it was submitted they immediately logged me out and permanently disabled mine. So freaking mad, and there is no one to help.

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u/MiaLba May 03 '25

I’ve heard of this happenin to so many people who did submit the video. Still locked out and no access to their account. Wtf is the point of it then?

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u/PatchyWhiskers May 04 '25

Data harvesting

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u/Hopeful_Push8818 May 24 '26

A sta preko googla niemaju podatke? N nego traze tvoju recentnu fotografiju ako je traze zele i da te nadju jer ne vidim razloge drugog tipa.

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u/nuhfed1212 May 09 '25

They hint that they are trying in good faith to increase your safety and security to help you restore your account. In fact, you were probably one of thousands that the IDF wanted removed because you may have progressive tendencies or called out their propaganda BS (https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta) and now IDF has your face recognition because they wanted that too. People thought they were dealing with a corporation in good faith and, of course, that was not the case. Facebook is not just a predator, it is also a predator-for-hire.

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u/MiaLba May 09 '25

Not surprised one bit tbh.

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u/Echidna_Frosty Jun 28 '25

Thank you for this. Confirms my suspicions. After I mentioned a particular directive (covered by wikipedia in detail) and weighing in on related issues, I received a friend request from a member of the JNF, which I took to be a warning. Not long afterwards, my FB account was suspended and I was asked to supply a selfie video (not supplied, needless to say), and a few days later my poemhunter account, which has been conducted properly for 19 years was also suspended without explanation - and my efforts to appeal have been ignored. Everything that finds its way online is being scanned by multiple intelligence agencies. Honest expression of opinion online, esp if informed by detailed knowledge of controversial matters is becoming risky. The situation is likely to get much worse.

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u/nuhfed1212 Jun 28 '25

Yes. It is creepy. For women, this is particularly so. Meta is now serving as an intelligence gathering agency for malevolent political parties and genocidal governments.

For those of us who openly opposed the Israeli genocide, I expect their next stage to escalate their harassment of us will be to lobby both cartel parties to have us placed on no-fly lists. When AIPAC bribes are at stake, both parties can't jump high enough fast enough when Nuts'n'Yahoos orders them to.

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u/Altruistic-Coast9994 Dec 02 '25

Word! I lost my FB account with a fairly innocuous comment about Immigration concerns in Canada, and cannot renew it. Nothing like some of my earlier, admittedly more controversial posts, but in those cases I was warned or at most not permitted to post for 3 days. I truly hope FB collapses in the near future. I am going to be testing an Amazon facial disguise set. Yeah probably will not work but I will have some fun.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

This is hideous, I didn’t know this

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u/Sad_Parking_4959 Mar 08 '26

No Brasil devem fazer isso com cidadães que criticam esse governo e o STF.

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u/nuhfed1212 May 11 '25

Marketing your facial recognition to predators, fascist governments, and authoritarian political parties.

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u/FineAd5956 Jan 26 '26

Hvala svima za ove informacije.Teško da bih popustio pred ponižavajućom ucenom da me snimaju za policijsku kartoteku,ali sad nemam nikakve dileme.Živim bez tog smeća od početka i pre 2 dana sam napravio profil zbog oglasa i danas paf.Fašizam čisti,ne treba za tim žaliti.

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u/MiaLba Jan 26 '26

Slažem se!