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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 maaku »

notliketherest wrote: post #71
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…

People also use to think putting hour real name on the internet was creepy. Little by little the privacy erosion has brought us where we are today - standing naked in front of a corporate monster profiting off our data.

So invent an open-source federated server with deep learning capabilities that can do this and keep us in charge of our data.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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fiatjaf wrote: post #50
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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Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by maaku »

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…

That only works until people start doing it. Then it retroactively stops working.

The only way to prevent your face from being recognized is by not having your face in a photo to begin with.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by poorleno111 »

dsfuoi wrote: post #43
kardos wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah.... no.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by chinathrow »

maaku wrote: post #80
chinathrow wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That should be opt-in. What a fucked up feature. Edit: I don't give any of my friends consent to use that feature - yet the would still scan my face. How can this even be legal.

The article says it is opt-in.

I saw that now too. Opt-in isn't enough here, the user of the messenger app should get consent from all folks on those pictures before auto-uploading anything.

What another trove of data for FB. Disgusting.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by mattnewton »

maaku wrote: post #81
notliketherest wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People also use to think putting hour real name on the internet was creepy. Little by little the privacy erosion has brought us where we are today - standing naked in front of a corporate monster profiting off our data.

So invent an open-source federated server with deep learning capabilities that can do this and keep us in charge of our data.

I'm not sure anyone would pay for this feature to use themselves; to me it seems to exist as a side effect of searching for better advertising

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by unicornporn »

onewaystreet wrote: post #54
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…

It's called Photo Magic: "By recognizing your Facebook friends in the photos you take (just like when tagging or sharing photos on Facebook), Messenger can create a group thread for you to share the photos with those friends in just two taps." https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/12/messenger-adds-new-feat... http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/9/9696760/facebook-messenger... You can opt-out by turning off tagging suggestio…

The other day tinfoil me finally gave in and installed the Instagram app. Marshmallow gives me more granular permission control, but naturally I had to give it access to the file system to be able to upload pictures. Knowing about their ways with Messenger, I guess it's only a matter of time before Instagram scans my whole phone for images and videos to perform biometric analysis.

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by huevosabio »

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…

Maybe we can create a system that inserts imperceptible perturbations to generate adversarial images when uploading.

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/07/deep-learning-adversarial-e...

Re: Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs

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Post by sudojudo »

Natanael_L wrote: post #68
dsfuoi wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There's at least a few options. https://cvdazzle.com/

Now this is my type of dystopian future; those are very cool, like something straight out of Bladerunner. Fashion with a function, all that's missing is a clear raincoat.
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