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I can pull a fingerprint off the subway stair rails but that doesn't mean I can identify who it is. We anonymously reveal ourselves everyday but the danger com
by staplers 9y ago
I can pull a fingerprint off the subway stair rails but that doesn't mean I can identify who it is. We anonymously reveal ourselves everyday but the danger comes from confirming which data is ours. The goal is to make it difficult not impossible.
- sandworm101 9y agoThey don't need you to confirm it. This isn't a criminal case. They just need to be reasonably confident. Your face is in a picture with four other people. They can see that phones belonging to four people, who regularly chat with each other, were all at the same location at the time the photo was taken. They are now reasonably confident that your face is one of those four. Do that five or six times and their robots will know your face. Whether you confirm it or not doesn't really matter.
- staplers 9y agoThey can see that phones belonging to four people, who regularly chat with each other, were all at the same location at the time the photo was taken. How would they "see" your phone without the facebook app installed?
- sandworm101 9y agoThey buy/rent that data from google or any of a thousand other companies that might have access to your phone's location.
- jhasse 9y agoThing is: Grabbing fingerprints from the subway doesn't scale. Machine learning does.