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Serious question: I kind of liked how Facebook found people in my photos. Is there room for such a feature in a privacy conscious world?
by AuthorizedCust 5y ago
Serious question: I kind of liked how Facebook found people in my photos. Is there room for such a feature in a privacy conscious world?
- aaaaaaaaaaab 5y agoYes, there is. Instead of publicly auto-tagging you on the photo, FB could notify you that someone had uploaded a photo of you, and offer you to either: 1. Tag yourself on the photo 2. Censor yourself from the photo (blur, pixelate, black rectangle, whatever) Voilá, now the same feature is used to give control over your data.
- bhhaskin 5y agoHere is an interesting question. Is it at that point your data? Wouldn't it be the data of who ever took the photo? Why would it belong to you just because you are in the photo? I think giving users power over auto tagging make sense. But giving users power over other people's photos is a terrible idea.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 5y agoI think it’s basic courtesy to ask someone if they want their picture taken or not. This would only automate the process.
- ipaddr 5y agoThat wouldn't be possible in many cases. True courtesy would be paying them.
- tmountain 5y agoSubjective answer: Any data that has the potential for abuse regarding privacy will eventually find its way to being abused. Providing said feature requires curating the dataset necessary to power it. How can we trust companies beholden to quarterly earnings to do the right thing when financial motivations inform 100% of their actions? We can't.
- bdamm 5y agoUnless regulation is brought, they're going to do it anyway. The companies are absolutely going to be doing facial recognition and use that data, they just will be doing it without exposing the use of it to us.
- SavantIdiot 5y ago> Any data that has the potential for abuse regarding privacy will eventually find its way to being abused. Right, and it is our duty to not just roll over and let it be abused. We live in the world we create. Just shrugging will guarantee it will be abused.
- snarf21 5y agoYou need to ask the other question: Do they like it when HB tags them in yours and everyone else's photos?
- bryan_w 5y agoI mean, they opted in (it's off by default) so I would think so.
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- uuddlrlr 5y agoiOS does this on-device, you can access the SQLite database containing the metadata using libimobiledevice's ifuse(1). https://libimobiledevice.org/ https://libimobiledevice.org/
- ryandrake 5y agoThe privacy cat is already out of the bag once someone uploads a photo of you without your consent. That's the root behavior that should be corrected, and it's hard because the onus is on the privacy-conscious user, to get everyone else's cooperation. The facial recognition just adds even more privacy-questionable metadata. My dream facial recognition feature for Facebook would be to allow me, as a non-user of Facebook, to upload some hash of my face and direct Facebook to disallow any user from uploading a picture with my face in it.
- 8note 5y agothe privacy has been broken once you've been photographed without your consent. The same features for name association can be done offline once the picture exists. Just show people the picture, and see if anyone knows who it is
- mechanical_bear 5y agoConsent is not required in a public setting.
- MrKristopher 5y agoIs facial recognition so good that it can distinguish you from a billion other people? I assumed the photo recognition relied on the social graph i.e. to look for your friends or friends of friends in your pictures.
- skybrian 5y agoThat's kind of a radical position. People shouldn't take photos of crowds in public places? You want veto power over that?
- Vrondi 5y agoIn the USA at least, there is no legal expectation of privacy on a public street. So, for news reporting purposes, you can publish photos of a crowd in public. However, as soon as you step onto private property, this changes. Even at places like shopping malls and stores, the owner of that place can take your photo for security, but cannot publish it, and it is not kosher for photographers to take photos of customers in these settings and publish them without getting a signed model release form the subject of the photo. Likewise, a photographer should get explicit permission for any other private spaces such as homes.
- Vrondi 5y agoWell, honestly, you shouldn't be giving other peoples' likenesses to big corporations under worldwide non-exclusive license agreements without a signed model release consent form. However, enforcing this is almost impossible. But really, morally, you should never give anyone else's face to a corporation without their explicitly requesting you to upload the photo to a site.
- jacquesm 5y agoYes, if you do it client side. I could see this working as a browser plug in.