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Complicated? Remove this “feature” to start: >all of which upload your personal data from the phones to their own servers without your knowledge or consent. O

Complicated? Remove this “feature” to start: >all of which upload your personal data from the phones to their own servers without your knowledge or consent. Our default legal position shouldn’t be one of accommodating a corporation’s existing market-acquisition practices over people’s privacy.

emiliobumachar 9y ago
Are you seriously proposing to ban uploading pictures that contain other people to third parties computers without consent? That would go way beyond Facebook. Would I need to track down everyone in a picture before annexing it to a Yahoo e-mail? I'd think the most pro-privacy reasonable approach would be to stop companies from identifying them beyond "someone who did not consent to being tracked".
- CaptainZapp 9y ago
  How about not maintaining shadow profiles, not allow tagging nor allow facial recognition to be applied to third parties on uploaded photos? Facebook has such incredible smart engineers that they can file patents to identify you based on the dust of your camera lens [1]. It should be a cinch to them not to track such third parties in any way, shape or form. The problem was that they gave zero fucks about the privacy implication to third parties, which have nothing to do - and no business relationship with Facebook. It seems quite the opposite: That the go through great length to maintain shadow profiles and track everybody. I really hope that the GDPR forces them to clean up their act. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620 https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-th...
- Slansitartop 9y ago
  I think he's really proposing regulations that limit how such data can be used once uploaded. For instance, it could still be legal for Facebook to slurp your friend's address book (and your profile, indirectly), but the regulation could require them to discard and purge that information if they can't immediately match it to an account.

emiliobumachar 9y ago

Are you seriously proposing to ban uploading pictures that contain other people to third parties computers without consent? That would go way beyond Facebook. Would I need to track down everyone in a picture before annexing it to a Yahoo e-mail? I'd think the most pro-privacy reasonable approach would be to stop companies from identifying them beyond "someone who did not consent to being tracked".

CaptainZapp 9y ago
How about not maintaining shadow profiles, not allow tagging nor allow facial recognition to be applied to third parties on uploaded photos? Facebook has such incredible smart engineers that they can file patents to identify you based on the dust of your camera lens [1]. It should be a cinch to them not to track such third parties in any way, shape or form. The problem was that they gave zero fucks about the privacy implication to third parties, which have nothing to do - and no business relationship with Facebook. It seems quite the opposite: That the go through great length to maintain shadow profiles and track everybody. I really hope that the GDPR forces them to clean up their act. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620 https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-th...
Slansitartop 9y ago
I think he's really proposing regulations that limit how such data can be used once uploaded. For instance, it could still be legal for Facebook to slurp your friend's address book (and your profile, indirectly), but the regulation could require them to discard and purge that information if they can't immediately match it to an account.