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It seems hard if not impossible to prevent illegal use of profile pictures. If a web browser can access them, collecting them can be automated. Even if they are
by lapink 7y ago
It seems hard if not impossible to prevent illegal use of profile pictures. If a web browser can access them, collecting them can be automated. Even if they are only accessible through an app on iOS or Android, you could still, on a device with root access, capture the API calls and reverse engineer how to get those pictures.
So we might just assume any intelligence service already has that. The only protection against a more widespread development of those products would be legal I think.
- dukoid 7y agoRelated reading recommendation: "The Dead Past" by Isaac Asimov.
- Youden 7y agoThere's a simple, practical way to do this: don't make the images public. Limit them to some degree of separation by friend connections. I think this should satisfy most friend-finding use-cases while eliminating comprehensive large-scale scraping. You can still reconnect with that guy you saw at a party a few years ago or that teacher from high-school. Chances are they're within 2 or 3 degrees of separation from you.
- NegativeLatency 7y agoBy the same argument you might also be a similar distance from an intelligence agent.
- ggggtez 7y ago>Limit them to some degree of separation by friend connections. Haha, oh sweet summer child. How do you think Cambridge Analytica got all that data? All you need is 1 friend with lousy security practices.