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Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by Spooky23 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #117
Spooky23 wrote: post #114

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Funny. Congress cannot afford the lawyers needed to write that kind of legislation. The lobbyists write the laws they advocate for.

Strangely enough, Elizabeth Warren was able to put together comprehensive legislation to work towards ending Intuit's (to name the largest offender) corporate welfare [1] in the tax prep software space. Or is there an anti-private corporation/pro IRS tax prep lobbyist I'm missing? [1] https://www.warren.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1110

I don't follow the sausagemaking process in DC, so I don't precisely know in that instance, but my guess would be a public advocacy group.

In my state legislature, which I follow, it's really common for various groups to write sample legislation. Everything from duck habitat preservation to open source software.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by maaku »

mattnewton wrote: post #86
maaku wrote: post #81

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So invent an open-source federated server with deep learning capabilities that can do this and keep us in charge of our data.

I'm not sure anyone would pay for this feature to use themselves; to me it seems to exist as a side effect of searching for better advertising

> I'm not sure anyone would pay for this feature to use themselves

I said open-source.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by bradbeattie »

visarga wrote: post #124
bradbeattie wrote: post #59

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

I was thinking along the lines of a "Do not track" flag that is to be voluntarily observed by large social networks like, FB. It would be a "Do Not Share" flag.

I hear you, but I think enforcing compliance would be impossible not dissimilar to the "Evil bit".

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by Mendenhall »

Kristine1975 wrote: post #128
Mendenhall wrote: post #67

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I feel that was always the plan and people just didnt see it coming.

"They trust me. Dumb fucks." -- Mark Zuckerberg ( http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims... )

Thank you for posting that, I have never read that before, it does seem to give a glimpse of the problems I see with FB.

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Post by tripzilch »

Silhouette wrote: post #75
proksoup wrote: post #3

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Scary, but inevitable, no? As technology improves, it's hard to imagine regulations keeping pace with preventing this sort of thing ... And even if they did, then it would only be used by criminals and governments (while I may call it criminal, they would likely exclude themselves from any such regulation), and I'm not sure that situation (criminals and governments being the only users of the technology) is a better…

As technology improves, it's hard to imagine regulations keeping pace with preventing this sort of thing ... I don't really see why. The main risks with modern big data storage and mining technologies mostly come from the "big" part. A single random person passing you in the street and seeing you out and about for a few seconds probably isn't much of a threat to you. A casual photo in someone's family holiday album w…

Sounds like a slightly suboptimal compromise situation that one could grudgingly give in to. But thanks to 3rd party ad networks (trans-national, etc), we can't just not have nice things, we can't even have slightly suboptimal compromise things.
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