Facebook turned on face recognition silently

Post by tcd » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 10:12 PM UTC

vesinisa wrote: post #32

cryptoz wrote: post #21

More than a decade ago Mark Zuckerberg said that anyone who gave him a photo of themselves was a "dumb fuck". His entire plan this whole time has been to do exactly this kind of thing (edit: because he thinks it is profit-maximizing), and he thinks you're a dumb fuck (just like me) for uploading your photo to let him use in the maximum-scary-surveillance way. We should all just get off Facebook. The problem is that y…

This is why I think the 'right to be forgotten' legislation might actually be a GOOD thing. Sure, it's some extra work when designing a new system, and lots of legacy systems require expensive rework, and a few twats will abuse the right to have Google redact journalistic information about their personal misadventures from the public sphere. But it's still my private data, so I should have the right to forbid compani…

Post by ryandrake » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 10:56 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #54

bjt2n3904 wrote: post #37

So, here's the weird catch-22. Or perhaps, the illusion of choice. There are two people who are in a photo. One wishes Facebook to use face recognition, the other does not. Facebook will run face recognition on the photo regardless, but how will they know who wants to be recognized, and who doesn't? Simply, they have a model of your face already trained. And they recognize you in photos--you have no say whether or no…

Which is why I do not want anybody to make any pictures of me, especially not if they are active on social media. There are exactly two pictures of me online, the one is 30 years old, the other about 10. The quickest way to get me pissed off is to point a camera at me.

Post by trophycase » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:38 PM UTC

kelnos wrote: post #117

jacquesm wrote: post #54

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Which is why I do not want anybody to make any pictures of me, especially not if they are active on social media. There are exactly two pictures of me online, the one is 30 years old, the other about 10. The quickest way to get me pissed off is to point a camera at me.

I find that a little bit sad. Both of my parents have passed away (fairly young), and they were somewhat camera-shy when they were alive (not for the same reasons you are, but the result is the same). I have barely a handful of photos of them, and that's often a source of disappointment and sadness for me. I get that rampant data collection is unacceptable, and companies are terribly poor stewards of our personal dat…

Post by adamrezich » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 11:52 PM UTC

maleta wrote: post #95

Algorithm is good, but not best. Facebook is offering me to tag my dad on my own pictures. :v https://imgur.com/a/fqDGS

Post by jakebasile » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #191

sib wrote: post #183

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If you "told me" to delete a picture that included you that I had taken in a public place, I would "tell you" no. If you politely asked, I would generally delete the picture, depending on whether or not there was a reason that I felt I wanted the picture and whether or not there was a way to reproduce the picture without you in it. For example, if Bigfoot had run through the frame while I was taking the picture, I'd…

If you took a picture with me accidentally in the frame that would be one thing, and I could not care less about it. If you purposefully made a picture of me and refused to delete it things could get interesting.