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Re: How normal am I?

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Post by eurasiantiger »

schleck8 wrote: post #36
stackbutterflow wrote: post #33

Interestingly, if you click on the ToS you end up on a page explaining how it works (can't link it). The beauty scoring model was found on Github (this or this one). The models to predict age, gender and facial expression/emotion are part of FaceApiJS, which forms the backbone of this project. Do note that its developer doesn't fully divulge on which photos the models were trained. Also, FaceApiJS is bad at detecting…

How does a patchwork of APIs and open source pretrained models receive funding from the eu...

Here is the project funding information page.

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/786641

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by slightwinder »

cal85 wrote: post #44
kuu wrote: post #4

Sharing 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?

> Devil’s advocate here. What could go wrong?

Could be used for a scam, by a stalker, for social engineering, or several other evil ploys. Today, there are so many possible bad actions which are happening... On average, they are unlikely, but not impossible. And who knows about the long run.

> 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?

In my country, there are harsh regulations on public cameras. Private people are not even allowed to capture you outside from being in the background.

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by richrichardsson »

jstanley wrote: post #2

I 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…

I found that the most shocking. 96% of people who used this didn't read the conditions first.

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by loopback_device »

Gigachad wrote: post #54
cal85 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Most people have such weird and illogical views on privacy. A website collecting face pictures without anything else is pretty useless. Walking in to a retail store owned by a company using facial recognition on a huge range of owned stores is a serious privacy issue.

Not useless at all, there are usually enough pictures of people on the internet with names, metadata, etc attached to immediately link and identify. Basically what Clearview does (did?). I would not be surprised if this was a data collection siphon.

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by worthless-trash »

danparsonson wrote: post #70
Gigachad wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people have such weird and illogical views on privacy. A website collecting face pictures without anything else is pretty useless. Walking in to a retail store owned by a company using facial recognition on a huge range of owned stores is a serious privacy issue.

Face pictures and IP adresses...

And browser fingerprint and operating system.

Re: How normal am I?

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

cal85 wrote: post #44
kuu wrote: post #4

Sharing 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?

It could use that to impersonate you in a mobile banking application through biometric authentication. It's getting pretty popular in my country (I think it's required by law or something).
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