> I just do not know what to about it any longer. Each time I create a new Microsoft account
There’s your problem. Don’t create a Microsoft account? Why would you need one anyway? To use windows? Why? Get Linux or switch to Mac.
Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem
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#12> Microsoft's PhotoDNA scanning is not just in OneDrive, through the Microsoft's eco-system. Basically, if you are using your Microsoft account to sign in to Windows 11, PhotoDNA scans your entire computer. This information came directly from Microsoft Support. This sounds like a horrible privacy violation. Is it true? What do they do if they find a match?
According to the post, they called the police (!)
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#13This is why I regularly reset my face.
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#14> Microsoft wanted me to confirm my age, that I was a "real person" along with identity. So Microsoft somehow reached out to the police department, based on my address information in my Microsoft accounts, with a check of some kind. I had to go to the local police department to verify who I was and my age. The police department told me it was odd. They are just following up on Microsoft complaint. This happened a few or so years ago. Microsoft confirmed my identity then. However, the Microsoft account profile photo issue still exists today.
You what now???
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#15> I just do not know what to about it any longer. Each time I create a new Microsoft account There’s your problem. Don’t create a Microsoft account? Why would you need one anyway? To use windows? Why? Get Linux or switch to Mac.
"My picture gets a call to the police if I use it at my day job" is a hell of a sentence, for example.
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#16Wait, reading between the lines it thinks his face is CSAM? I guess its a hash collision, but that is pretty crazy. Sounds like the plot to a scifi dystopia.
The perceptual hashes used for this kind of thing are, necessarily, much more susceptible to collisions than cryptographic hashes - so it's not out of the question at all.
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#17Wait, reading between the lines it thinks his face is CSAM? I guess its a hash collision, but that is pretty crazy. Sounds like the plot to a scifi dystopia.
No, TFA says the picture was associated to an old account that got flagged - presumably anything linked to that account, picture included, is now cursed.
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#18So... microsoft thinks he is too hot for them.
For your information, PhotoDNA is a CSAM related tool. I do not think that comment is appropriate.
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#19> I just do not know what to about it any longer. Each time I create a new Microsoft account There’s your problem. Don’t create a Microsoft account? Why would you need one anyway? To use windows? Why? Get Linux or switch to Mac.
"My picture gets a call to the police if I use it at my day job" is a hell of a sentence, for example.
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#20> Microsoft wanted me to confirm my age, that I was a "real person" along with identity. So Microsoft somehow reached out to the police department, based on my address information in my Microsoft accounts, with a check of some kind. I had to go to the local police department to verify who I was and my age. The police department told me it was odd. They are just following up on Microsoft complaint. This happened a few…
> The police department told me it was odd. They are just following up on Microsoft complaint.
Since when does your local police department respond to a "Microsoft complaint?"