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In many cases it is a willed action though. The images in this article are quite probably uploaded by the people themselves. I don't know exactly how privacy se
by Karlozkiller 11y ago
In many cases it is a willed action though. The images in this article are quite probably uploaded by the people themselves. I don't know exactly how privacy settings work on VKontakte, but from what I've seen most images seem publically searchable.
Now tell me how uploading things to such a database is not a willed action.
I agree with you that there is the possibility of someone else taking such images of you and everyone around you, through surveillance cameras or whatever, but for something of the scale shown in this article you'd still need quite an effort to create such a database without the help from the people themselves, especially if you want to link it to other personal information.
- barrkel 11y agoPeople don't "upload things to a database", though, that's the point. They don't go to their photo app and think, "self, I'm going to upload this image to a global searchable database now". Rather, they think: "Steve and Mary would have liked this restaurant dish", or "I'm going to try and make my friends jealous of the great holiday I'm having". Because people don't own their own clouds, or have privatized social networks, they are forced to upload things into databases that others control. Who controls the privacy defaults typically have the most control over where the data flows thereafter. And it's all out of the user's hands; they weren't given a choice, not a real one, because the incentives for the system lead you to accept the lack of control, or spend your life neurotically trying to keep a lid on everything, or live as a technological recluse. There's no other way to live today.