Sharing my face with my camera with a random website? Sure, what could go wrong... /s
Don't we all have tons of pictures of ourselves online already?
i will give you 1 million usd if you find 1 of mine. people are different
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#122I was initially put off by the webcam permission requirement, but the terms and conditions page says it's basically an art project and they don't send any data off (unless you explicitly accept it at the end) so I gave it a chance. I'm glad I allowed webcam permission because it was an interesting, informative, and fun look at biometric tracking. Apparently I'm "violently average" which is not a way I would previousl…
Same, but I think people generally over-estimate how much different from average they are. (It's from the webcam's pov anyway) Usually I also don't like interactions with the webcam but this was interesting enough.
and now your face is linked to your ip in a db somewhere
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#123Sharing my face with my camera with a random website? Sure, what could go wrong... /s
Devil’s advocate here. What could go wrong? If you open a website in a fresh browser context and let it use your camera, isn’t this about the same as walking down a street with CCTV cameras?
A website can collect millions of faces in a few hours. A CCTV camera can only collect data from a single area.
It's more akin to those spying doorbells from Amazon and friends, which I personally would try to avoid when I can.
The concentration of data and the lack of necessity of your face being recorded in the first place change the decision making process significantly.
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#126I was not really prepared for being told how unattractive I am this morning.
I was a 6.3 as I stepped out of bed. I took a shower, shaved, brushed my teeth, put on a nice shirt, fixed my hair and offered a good angle of my best smile at the camera. I was now a 9.
I'm also reasonably sure other factors also influence these algorithms. Hair style, framing, lighting, the clothes found on your shoulders, angle, distortion by the camera lens, and most importantly, similarity to high-scoring faces in the source data set.
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#127Doesn't detect the location of my face properly. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing :-)
This is what it did to me as well. Seemed to be picking up only the right side of my head, centered on my ear. I guess that means I can just double the number it gave me, right?
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#128lol, my score went up two points just changing to a different webcam, also can confirm this works completely offline
guess I know which webcam I'm using from now on! xD
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#129Sharing my face with my camera with a random website? Sure, what could go wrong... /s
EU funded project, really not very risky.
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#130Sharing my face with my camera with a random website? Sure, what could go wrong... /s
For the extra paranoid, I can confirm that it does work offline after you press the button and let it load. You can hide your face until it loads, and then cut the connection. Be sure to close the tab before you go online again.
Service Workers are a thing.
If you're extra extra paranoid, use a disposable VM in Qubes OS.