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This is a serious ethical violation in my opinion. Like the sjsu student in that article, I am extremely uncomfortable with people of suspect moral compas analy

This is a serious ethical violation in my opinion. Like the sjsu student in that article, I am extremely uncomfortable with people of suspect moral compas analyzing my face without my consent. As a Bay Area frequent user of tinder, I do actually feel violated. Only one of my photos is public on my profile but with that you can find my name, my college, and then using basic data engineering you can find my phone number and address. Using face recognition you could theoretically scour the web for nudes or suspect information and stalk, blackmail or worse. I hope someone drops the hammer on this person to send a message and prevent future occurrences of this

devrandomguy 9y ago
I do not believe that it would be possible to prevent this sort of behavior by force. Any script kiddie could pull this off, and there are more born every day. Some of them barely even understand Western values, let alone have an incentive to value them. Rather than (edit: in addition to) relying on protection, we should rely on personal safety practices. Using our own portraits as avatars may have been a mistake, in hindsight. I will recommend to my friends, that they teach their children to use a photo of their favorite toy or something, instead of their own face.
- nojvek 9y ago
  Tinder is very cut throat. The whole social network values people based on their appearances. When I was single I had written a bot on their v1 API when Tinder was first on app store. I was curious of their security and social dynamics. No intent to release anything in public. I had then created 5 different profiles of same picture, with different shades of skin color. Interesting results. I came to the conclusion that tinder wasn't for me. I had to try good ol' face to face interactions. I'm sure Tinder and snapchat are a trove of data to help study the science of human mating. Releasing a dataset online is crazy although I wonder what would happen if tinder got hacked and their data published on bittorrent like the fapgate with celebrities that happened a while ago. A security disaster like that is just waiting to happen.

devrandomguy 9y ago

I do not believe that it would be possible to prevent this sort of behavior by force. Any script kiddie could pull this off, and there are more born every day. Some of them barely even understand Western values, let alone have an incentive to value them. Rather than (edit: in addition to) relying on protection, we should rely on personal safety practices. Using our own portraits as avatars may have been a mistake, in hindsight. I will recommend to my friends, that they teach their children to use a photo of their favorite toy or something, instead of their own face.

nojvek 9y ago
Tinder is very cut throat. The whole social network values people based on their appearances. When I was single I had written a bot on their v1 API when Tinder was first on app store. I was curious of their security and social dynamics. No intent to release anything in public. I had then created 5 different profiles of same picture, with different shades of skin color. Interesting results. I came to the conclusion that tinder wasn't for me. I had to try good ol' face to face interactions. I'm sure Tinder and snapchat are a trove of data to help study the science of human mating. Releasing a dataset online is crazy although I wonder what would happen if tinder got hacked and their data published on bittorrent like the fapgate with celebrities that happened a while ago. A security disaster like that is just waiting to happen.