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Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by dsfuoi »

proksoup wrote: post #9
Razengan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that, in turn, could eventually be countered by the technology that allows anyone to easily modify their appearance any way they want, however many times they want. But then..of course, all such services will be required by governments to keep a complete record of a person's "appearance history." Enter the black market, a la Minority Report.

A Scanner Darkly is maybe relevant here too.

For the scramble suit to work, publicly available 'mixing' stations would have to be available, which would work like a black box, you could only surveil input and output.

And exits from your house would have to somehow be connected to those stations, or have your house change locations randomly.

The latter could work if houses were mostly in form of larger modular worldwide-compatible shipping containers. Also no windows, we would have VR.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by kardos »

sudojudo wrote: post #30
gcr wrote: post #12

If you don't want your face to be recognized, you can sometimes prevent it from being detected in the first place. Our research group recently looked into how to hide from Facebook's face detector. If you're uploading photos, adding white bars around the eyes of the subjects in the photo is the best way to prevent Facebook from finding the face. However, if you're out and about in the real world, even scarves and mas…

Years ago, I read about a hat that some Hollywood stars had found useful for fighting paparazzi. Mind you, I don't recall the source, and it my have been tabloid nonsense. The hat had a circle of IR LEDs (or something of the sort) emitting 360 degrees of invisible-to-the-naked-eye light. Photos of anyone wearing the hat had a similar effect to using a flash in a mirror, the subject was completely washed out by light.…

Not quite answering your question, but,

> .. Hollywood stars ..

It's obvious now: simply have makeup done up such that you look like someone else

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by dsfuoi »

kardos wrote: post #39
dsfuoi wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe we are the primitive ones.

What?

In terms of sociologic development the middle-eastern countries are considered backwards with their stone-age laws, ingrained religion, and treating women like lesser beings, and yet we may soon be wearing 'burka' like clothing to protects our identity. Of course apart from the physical look, there is no connection between the two.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by mosquito242 »

I had the strangest interaction with the Messenger app a few months ago.

I was spending time with friends, and I took a few pictures of all of us (didn't send them through either FB or Messenger). A few hours later, messenger popped up a notification telling me something along the lines of "Hey, I see you took pictures today of . Want to send them to her?"

Made me feel incredibly creeped out that FB would take my photos and (presumably upload and) analyze them even when I hadn't given them to FB.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by patrickbolle »

mosquito242 wrote: post #44

I had the strangest interaction with the Messenger app a few months ago. I was spending time with friends, and I took a few pictures of all of us (didn't send them through either FB or Messenger). A few hours later, messenger popped up a notification telling me something along the lines of "Hey, I see you took pictures today of . Want to send them to her?" Made me feel incredibly creeped out that FB would take my pho…

were they just stored on your phone ?

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by fiatjaf »

sametmax wrote: post #20
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #2

Facial recognition is really scary. This was recently demonstrated for Russia's Facebook, VKontakte, when a service appeared that let you look up people on that site by photo. So people started looking up the profiles of random subway passengers, outing sex workers to their families and friends, etc.

That's not the scary part. The scary part is that people are feeding the facebook DB with pictures, and many more data. They did it, they are doing it, and will keep it up, despite everything we told them. The scary part is that nobody cares.

The tech scene loves Facebook. They love React.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by kardos »

sudojudo wrote: post #37
Jill_the_Pill wrote: post #24

Can you obfuscate your "faceprint" by tagging a few other people as you?

You'd have to be pretty vigilant, and it would require others to do the same. There'd have to be an equal, or greater, amount of photos tagged as another person. Who is this other person, anyhow? Where's their account? All data says it's Jill_the_Pill, so she must use pseudo-names. Flag her account for further investigation. It's best to just stay off of Facebook if you care at all about privacy. At least, that's the…

> It's best to just stay off of Facebook if you care at all about privacy

Anyone who cares about privacy already does not use facebook. It's the fact that facebook still gets your photos/info that is the problem. It's a difficult problem to solve. Simply avoiding facebook sadly does not cut it.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by fiatjaf »

mosquito242 wrote: post #44

I had the strangest interaction with the Messenger app a few months ago. I was spending time with friends, and I took a few pictures of all of us (didn't send them through either FB or Messenger). A few hours later, messenger popped up a notification telling me something along the lines of "Hey, I see you took pictures today of . Want to send them to her?" Made me feel incredibly creeped out that FB would take my pho…

Try getting pictures downloaded from other sources directly to your phone and see if Facebook prompts you the same.

Try getting pictures of other people and see if Facebook suggests them to be added as your friends.

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