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It's just a matter of time. With implications we can barely imagine today. Think about it in reverse. Think about every photo in existence anywhere that has yo
by InclinedPlane 11y ago
It's just a matter of time. With implications we can barely imagine today.
Think about it in reverse. Think about every photo in existence anywhere that has you in it, or has your stuff in it. Imagine all of that being tagged and cataloged as being tied to you. A selfie your friend took in your house with your kitchen in the background. Somewhere somehow the data is crunched, algorithms are leveraged, and these things are figured out. A lot of this isn't even a particularly hard problem, your social graph is already known, your address is known, people share their locations all the time, the people you hang out with is known, it's a simple problem of deduction to figure out all this info. And then there's an amazing degree of data that can be extracted. Imagine a database containing a list of everything you are known to have in your house, and when, and changes to that. Imagine tracking your whereabouts and who knows what else by the presence, or absence, of your self or your accouterments or your car or what-have-you in various locations in the backgrounds of other images.
We really don't have a good sense for the implications of this level of data becoming available to anyone and everyone.