Instagram's latest novelty will ask you for a 'Video-Selfie' to verify your identity

Instagram wants to end false, illegitimate accounts or bots that harm other users through harassment or hate campaigns.In fact, there are more and more those who decide to take a "rest" of the social network precisely because of this type of situations.Therefore, the company that owns the platform, Meta-before Facebook-has begun to implement a facial recognition system that forces users to make a 'seloy video' to verify who is really behind each account.

This is confirmed by the captures that Matt Navarra, social media analyst, has published through his Twitter account. According to XDA developers, the company began to test the function last year, but ran into technical problems.Several users reported that they jumped this option when they started session from a new device.

Video-Selfie to confirm that you are a real person

"Take a video-relaxation: we need a short video turning your head in different directions. This helps us to confirm that you are a real person and confirm your identity."It is the text that can be seen in one of Navarra's screenshots.Thus, the new facial recognition system asks us to make a 'video selfie', moving our heads in different directions so that it cannot be supplanted with a photograph.

In the same line, another user was pronounced, who published a capture in which Instagram asked him

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The new Instagram verification system arrives a few days after Facebook (target) announced that it will close its facial recognition system throughout this month, implanted 11 years ago with the deletion of the scan data of the faces of more than more than1,000 million users.

In this way, Facebook will suppress a function that has raised numerous issues on privacy and investigations open by the authorities, in addition to a collective claim.The facial recognition software automatically identified people in user digital photo albums and proposed to "label them" to all with one click, linking their accounts to the images.

The closure of the Facebook facial recognition system implies that "people who have opted for this system will cease to be automatically recognized in photos and videos."Facial recognition templates of more than one billion people will be eliminated.