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Think about it this way: the photo itself already contains all the information necessary to identify you, and algorithms already exist which allow that informat
by Ajedi32 9y ago
Think about it this way: the photo itself already contains all the information necessary to identify you, and algorithms already exist which allow that information to be easily extracted. No privacy setting in the world will change that, short of the "delete" button on the photo itself (or maybe a way to blur your face).
Therefore, this setting logically _cannot_ change what information Facebook has about you; it can only change how that information is displayed.
- SiempreViernes 9y agoIf you have a book you certainly own all the information in it, but if you are never allowed to open the book and read its content (your brother wrote it but was then terribly embarrased about it and made you swear nobody would be allowed to read it) then how can you put the information to use?
- Ajedi32 9y agoFacebook's servers are computers, not people. A human might read that book and be unable to control how they react to that information (maybe you might look at your brother differently if you knew what he wrote). In contrast, a computer could read the book, do a bunch of processing on it, run it through a few neural nets, check your brother's privacy settings, see that the book is marked as private, then erase all its "memories" of the book from existence; the result being absolutely no different from if it had never "read" the book at all. So even if it were true that "Facebook will run face recognition on the photo regardless", that would be irrelevant as long as it does nothing with the information obtained via that algorithm. And if you don't trust Facebook to honor your privacy setting and do nothing with the information, you shouldn't trust them to not run the facial recognition algorithm in the first place.
- bo1024 9y agoGood point, but the setting might change how that information is used, by Facebook or its users or advertisers (or subpoenas, etc).
- EGreg 9y agoWe've been uploading photos with location data for years. Any social site knows your whereabouts. Seriously, they even tag you without asking :)