Its good to have better security features.
Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
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Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
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Same thing for me with Battle.Net I moved to Singapore. Their purchases are region locked (and may they burn in hell for that alone). Tried to change my account's country, but that requires submitting your ID and your address, the latter has to be verified by either being shown on the ID or by .. submitting a utility bill or something related. For a game account. For a change that is irrelevant and only matters becau…
That is totally normal, this is for billing and tax issues. Just give an electricity bill.
No, that's not normal (asking for my ID or address).
In fact, I created a new battle.net account. Located in Singapore. No address or government ID needed, I just curse the people at Blizzard everytime I have to log out of the SG account to play a game that is linked to my original (DE) account.
So they believe me, without verification or anything, when I create an account in Singapore. They consider me a liar and hold my account hostage before I provide details that I'm not willing to share when I tell them that my existing account should follow me.
That is _not_ normal. That's bizarre and stupid. If they'd require this for every account, new or changed, then it would be consistent (but .. I still would think that's not okay and wouldn't create an account with them). Handling these cases differently is just hurting the existing account in good standing.
(for the record: I don't have any utility bill, electricity or otherwise. That policy is not only brain dead, it wouldn't even work for me if I wanted to hand over anything like that. Singapore: My utilities are covered by my rent, I don't get bills for that. I don't get any physical bills anyway and literally the only bill I have would be an online mobile bill. Coming from Germany: I get a utility bill (water, electricity) once a year. This whole idea of proving my address is not only utterly stupid, it also seems to expect things to work in ways they don't outside of Blizzard's home country)
Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
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Instagram isn't a bank
Not yet... Preemptively fulfilling KYC requirements probably eases the barriers to incorporating financial services into the platform. I'm not a fan of this, just thinking out loud
I didn't have to show ID to create my Paypal or Venmo accounts.
Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
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FB has a no porn policy so wtf do you have verify you are you to get a revenge porn picture removed? "We remove photographs of people displaying genitals or focusing in on fully exposed buttocks. We also restrict some images of female breasts if they include the nipple, but our intent is to allow images that are shared for medical or health purposes. We also allow photos of women actively engaged in breastfeeding or…
FB removes pornographic content, but it doesn't always do so proactively. If a user shares pornographic content, it may be visible on the site for a short period of time before the content is removed by Facebook. The goal of the initiative Facebook was attempting to implement was to prevent any revenge-porn photos from being shared on the website at all . Even for a brief period of time. From a user's standpoint, one…
I find the concept quite strange.
It's kind of like having the police live at your house because 'just in case'.
Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
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In context of Zuckerberg’s “They trust me, dumb fucks” comments, the invitation to upload nude photos seems especially alarming.
misrepresents the idea of the service. It's supposed to tackle the 'revenge porn' issue. If someone sees their own nudes show up on facebook, they can send a picture to facebook, which I assume get's fed into an image detection service that then tries to remove the already circulating nudes automatically.
Facebook doesn't allow porn, so reporting it should be sufficient.
Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
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A hash would only match an identical file, right? It sounds like image recognition is used here to catch derivatives of the original file, which a hash wouldn't catch.
There are specific (non-cryptographic) hashes which are built to compare equal for equal data, and to be similar for similar data (for different metrics of similarity). It's a somewhat esoteric subject, but it's a thing.
The "hash" would have to be non-reversible. When we compare images based on content, afaik we transfer them into a vector space and measure distance. Do we really have tech to make and compare such a content representation in a non-reversible way? That sounds like a lot to ask for tech that seems still in active development.
Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
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Oh, right yes I forgot that. I was going to sign up for Coinbase to demonstrate some stuff as a live demo - buy a few $ worth of BTC and transfer it between wallets/show it in the public blockchain/etc. They wanted me to scan and upload a government issued ID in order to give them money. Nooope, not a chance in hell.
They do that because the US government requires them to keep those records. This isn't Coinbase twirling their evil mostache and scheming about selling your personal data.
It’s pretty much all governments, not just the US. “KYC” regulations are kind of brutal in some ways. Especially when the security of that data comes last to everything else...
Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
#348Because if you were accessing someone else's Facebook account you wouldn't have access to a whole bunch of photos of their face would you.
Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
#349I uploaded a cropped/mirrored picture of Jack Nicholson in the Shining. After 48 hours the account was working again, no idea what happens in that process.
I'd advise against playing such games if your FB account matters to you. They have often blocked / disabled accounts based on these things. If not, then go ahead, by all means.
I have deleted my fb years ago. Had to reinstate because apparently you need(ed) it for Tinder signup. I was horny.
Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
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The more data they keep about these images that they are promising to delete, the more they would make themselves liable to be sued for privacy violation (especially in the EU). It is a blurred line, but one that most rational companies (=not Uber) would prefer to avoid in the first place by only storing data that is necessary for their main functionality.
Before the EU sues there will be warnings and talks, plenty of time to collect a lot of faces.
But that is going to change in the new year with the new laws. with up to 2% of their global revenue in fines. And the fines IIRC can be issued backwards as well.