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Facebook Wants Your Face and You'll Probably Let Them Have It
- mtgx 9y agoThe final step in the Panopticon is almost complete. Facebook is bullshitting everyone just like it did on many occasions. Yes, they can "technically" use their DATR cookies to help with security slightly, but we all know that was never the primary use case, which is why they used in secret for many years. Yes, the phone number can be used for security, too, but that's not why they started asking us for it in the first place. The face thing is no different. I'm 99% sure this is to help stores, like those self-shopping Amazon stores, identify and match users when they enter the store. Expect Facebook to give this option to advertisers in about 12-18 months. And that's just one of the primary use cases for this. Another primary use is most likely for law enforcement. I wonder if we're going to hear about a "big contract with the government" that Facebook will "win" soon. If we do, you can attribute it to this move from Facebook. By the way, in case you were not aware, Facebook advertisers now have an option to track you by your Facebook email and phone number. So Facebook has already sold out your email and phone number to advertisers, the same info you trusted them to use for "security". But I'm sure they would never do that with your face profile. No, never. Certainly not Facebook. There are many other use cases for this, none of which have anything to do with security. I hope the EU will crush Facebook over this lie when they inevitably start exposing it as the lie that is.
- danjoc 9y agoYou'll let them have it, even if you don't, right? Other people upload your pictures to Facebook all the time. They give FB permission to use facial recognition, then your photo is theirs to do as they please. Does the EU have any privacy laws to counter this behavior from FB?