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I wonder how difficult it would be to write an app that subtly distorts facial features in photographs, and pass every photo I upload through it.

Is there a point where I would be recognizable to friends and family, and yet make algorithms choke?

And if there is, I wonder what would happen when my grandchildren are looking through old photoalbums, and wondering why Grandpa looks a little weird in all of his photos.

Then they will arrest you for interfering with a law enforcement officer. Not that it will stick, but by the time you get it cleared up you are $100k in the hole from legal expenses and a message has been sent to anyone else thinking of doing the same.

I'd love to see which specific officer would be named in the warrant.

I'm pretty sure various law enforcement agencies already have access to Facebook's data.

Edit: downvotes? FB provides law enforcement with step-by-step instructions on getting this information. https://www.eff.org/node/58178

Or even the driver license photo databases.

Good call, I didn't even consider the most obvious. They'd likely have many fewer hoops to jump through to get at that data.

A team up of FB with Polar Rose would have been pretty spectacular.