# AI photo recognition, social screening in recruitment, Home Depot's facial recongition practices

**URL:** <https://community.redact.dev/t/ai-photo-recognition-social-screening-in-recruitment-home-depots-facial-recongition-practices/110>\
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**Created:** [August 22, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/ai-photo-recognition-social-screening-in-recruitment-home-depots-facial-recongition-practices/110 "2025-08-22T04:11:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![wooly](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/wooly/32/17_2.png) [@wooly](https://community.redact.dev/u/wooly)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/ai-photo-recognition-social-screening-in-recruitment-home-depots-facial-recongition-practices/110/1 "2025-08-22T04:11:21Z")

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The pace of anti-privacy innovation and corporate adoption continues to be almost impossible to keep up with.

Just recently, a [terrifying new AI photo recognition tool can find the location of a photo with a snippet.](https://redact.dev/blog/ai-photo-geolocation-privacy-risk) Meanwhile, a [Redditor got flagged in a job interview for their LinkedIn likes](https://redact.dev/blog/linkedin-likes-background-check-risk).

Another corporate overreach; [Home Depot have been using facial recognition tech unethically - and face a lawsuit](https://redact.dev/blog/home-depot-facial-recognition-lawsuit)

In better news, we’ve [ranked the top web browsers for privacy-conscious folks like yourself.](https://redact.dev/blog/the-best-web-browsers-for-privacy-in-2026)