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If facebook has it, why shouldn't we?

• basch 7y ago
  I am not saying this is the same thing. But. Should you be able to ask for every photo ever taken of you? Lets say someone in public takes a photo, its their private work, copywritten, and never distributed to the public. Youre in the background. Can you request a full copy if their image?
  • toufka 7y ago
    Honestly, that would be pretty cool. And, in an interesting version of this world, a company like Facebook could have enabled such a self-awareness. And done it with the intent of allowing people that kind of self-growth. It's odd that the imagined objective data-collection about one's self that many people dream about actually exists (and many could use for self-improvement), and it is instead only available to those wishing to extort us. And that that kind of socialized agreement that all may contribute to each others' growth is now impossible, but not for technical, but for weird policy/economic reasons. I'd love to be able to purchase every photo ever taken of me at Facebook's market info rate - what, $200?
    • creato 7y ago
      Even if one were to agree that this would be reasonable, would you say facebook would be liable if the tool failed in some cases? And how do you enforce that, one way or the other? Algorithms that recognize people in photos aren't (and probably never will be) 100% accurate, especially in this context (people in the background of photos will often be partially obscured, poorly lit, maybe really small/far away, etc.).
  • jaybeeayyy 7y ago
    If that photo was sold to corporations and used for some revenue-generating service I would say yes, I should be allowed to see or request them...isn't that what Facebook is doing with the data? Distributing it publicly?
• Ajedi32 7y ago
  I'm not sure what your point is. Are you trying to argue that all data Facebook has should be public? That sounds like the opposite of privacy to me.