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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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Post by Cthulhu_ »

659087 wrote: post #304
Tarq0n wrote: post #274

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I wonder if some three letter agency is paying facebook to build them the biggest face recognition database in the world.

Zuckerberg is aiming to become president. They might not even need to pay him (outside of political favors, I'd imagine), because he's probably convinced he's building it for his future self.

He doesn't need to; if he / they want to, they can already exert more influence on the world than the US itself does. Facebook's population dwarfs that of the US.

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Post by cafard »

vadimberman wrote: post #336
spondyl wrote: post #333

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I was trying to change my email address for the game Black Desert Online upon closing down all of my old Gmail stuff and encountered the same sort of thing! > A photo of your photo ID card, taken in front of today's physical newspaper clearly showing the date, or over your screen showing your open ticket needs to be added as an attachment to the ticket. > Please also ensure that the ID is a valid government-issued do…

>> A photo of your photo ID card, taken in front of today's physical newspaper clearly showing the date, or over your screen showing your open ticket needs to be added as an attachment to the ticket. I thought you were being sarcastic, but the page you linked indeed states that. What is that for, a hostage negotiation? Proof that the time machine works? How many people buy physical daily newspapers in this day and ag…

Fewer and fewer buy newspapers, but the streets around my office are full of machines offering free daily papers.

Re: Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

smsm42 wrote: post #327
benwilber0 wrote: post #309

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This is the KYC (Know Your Customer) laws. Online-only banks like Ally and Simple require the same thing. In fact, every bank requires this. If you opened a bank account in-person some years ago you may not remember but they asked you for your government-issued ID card. It's the same thing.

I have opened several bank accounts online and never have been asked for photo id. SSN and some knowledge-based auth sure, but no photos.

SSN will give them something to look up in the central registry; as a bank they'll have the authority to do requests for information.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

ProAm wrote: post #185
1_2__4 wrote: post #177

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Do you have a better idea? I don’t.

Hash your copy of the nude image client side, and upload the hash only? Seems like a way better idea to me.

Good thing most people know how to make a hash.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

dhimes wrote: post #363
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #200

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Now do that on mobile, with a slower, cramped keyboard, and poor multitasking. Not everyone matches your system.

If would be kinda cool if HN were to start working on an algo to find those links automatically (a "possibly related" section at the top, for instance).

HN really isn't a good example of modern software or good UX tbf.

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Post by cJ0th »

vsc wrote: post #331

Sorry, I don't understand, but wouldn't someone ( suspicious ) also have a photo of yours if they have the access to your account. They could easily upload that photo and pass the captcha test .. Or am I missing something?

If I understand it correctly they would have to provide a photo with your face that FB hasn't seen before. Still rather easy to obtain for the determined.

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Post by t1o5 »

SippinLean wrote: post #298
freedomben wrote: post #279

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This is the case with almost all crypto currency exchanges as well. Even in that case, which I can sort of understand (even tho I still hate it), I was pretty off put by it. If Facebook or some other service starts doing this to me, I will use something else.

I believe on exchanges this is in order to maintain KYC compliance, in an effort to thwart money laundering.

Yes all the currency exchanges around the world (at least the reputed ones) do this as a part of their operating country's AML policy. The exchanges are required to report the transactions which raises a flag to the operating country's central banking system too.

AML rules can be complex, but it also has trivial rules like if the occupation of a person and the amount of the money he exchanges do not make sense, the transaction will be flagged and reported to the central bank. The transaction will go through, but will be reported to the central bank using a webservice or as a monthly report. Its upto the central bank to investigate it further.

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Post by dhimes »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #376
dhimes wrote: post #363

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If would be kinda cool if HN were to start working on an algo to find those links automatically (a "possibly related" section at the top, for instance).

HN really isn't a good example of modern software or good UX tbf.

Totally agree. But this seems like it's something up their alley.

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Post by JoBrad »

lootsauce wrote: post #332
JoBrad wrote: post #282

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No need to get all conspiratorial. Picasa did it before Google, AWS does it now. It’s what people (writ large) want.

Seems woefully ignorant to dismiss this concern especially post Snowden revelations. Theses are business records subject to mass surveillance with special access tailored for government agencies with rubber stamp "oversight"

I didn’t dismiss it at all. There is a big risk of it being misused by any number of parties, and I agree that we should have additional protections (in our Constitution, perhaps) for personal information that is shared, yet subject to be withheld at our request.

But the movement to identify and share information is not being successfully pushed by governments, but by private industry, largely for personal use. That is where my comment came from.

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