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I was told by a friend that when they uploaded a picture with me in it Facebook auto tagged me. I have never created a Facebook or Instagram account. I want no

I was told by a friend that when they uploaded a picture with me in it Facebook auto tagged me. I have never created a Facebook or Instagram account. I want no business with that company. I am annoyed that I am still profiled by them.

kibwen 5y ago
In the grim darkness of the near future, nobody leaves their house without painting their faces with CSAM in order to prevent cloud services from storing their images.
- cryptonector 5y ago
  Wow, that's pretty dark. On the plus side, pedophiles working at Facebook will have a great time. /s
  - disqard 5y ago
    Did you happen to read this today, or did you just come up with that purely by coincidence? https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/16506/facebookmeta-executive-loses-job-after-attempted-child-sex-allegations-following-sting-operation https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/16506/facebookmeta-exec...
    - cryptonector 5y ago
      I saw it yesterday. Yes, I was referring to that.
  - sorry_outta_gas 5y ago
    s/working/running
- namrog84 5y ago
  Too late. And even if did that. that could likely be deanonyimized with little effort. For those who don't already know, it takes very few data points to deanonyimize someone's data. With greater effort and efficiency you can have even less data points.
- rapind 5y ago
  Gait recognition already exists.
  - iratewizard 5y ago
    Moonwalk everywhere and copyright trolls will do the rest.
- nikolay 5y ago
  People can be identified by way too many things - if you're Facebook and you buy all data available for sale and correlate and enrich it, then you're known forever and every step you make is also recorded and analyzed. Worst of all, they are those idiots who take pictures all the time and you eventually end up in pictures from many angles (all timestamped and geolocated). Combined with "anonymized" data from, say, carriers, you're no secret to anyone. But the biggest problem is that even if Facebook doesn't trace you, the governments will, and they have a lot more sources. Privacy is extinct!
- deleted 5y ago
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roywashere 5y ago
This could happen because previously people explicitly tagged you in their photos, so in new photos you're auto tagged On one side it is weird, on the other side it makes sense. For example: Einstein is not an FB user. But if people upload photos and tag him it makes sense after a couple photos FB learns what is Einstein
- strulovich 5y ago
  But you need a FB account it page to actually tag someone, no?
  - dylan604 5y ago
    I think you missed the point about SHADOW PROFILE
  - c22 5y ago
    I killed my facebook account years ago, but back then you could write anything you wanted in a tag.
- freeflight 5y ago
  FB is doing with facial recognition what Google is doing with image recognition for captchas. Calling that "weird" is an understatement, considering what's going on there; Users are asked to identify friends and family for facial recognition, to train an algorithm that FB then monetizes for all kinds of advertisement and surveillance shittery. The whole thing is imho way past "weird" and firmly in dystopian territory.
Mezzie 5y ago
Them and the credit reporting companies.
Terry_Roll 5y ago
Well there were multiple ai's that existed in the 90's that could work out who was typing at the keyboard, one of them was about 1-2MB in size, the need for usernames and passwords is somewhat confusing when you know about that and other ai's! When you consider the level of surveillance that exists today with the mobile phone, smart tv's vehicle tracking, cctv, jobs on computers you can tell when someone is running late and you can probably even work out why. Even if you dont have a mobile and live in a rural location, as you walk around our bodies interfere with wifi signals, we block them, so you could use routers like a phased radar array detecting temporary signal weakness and other anomalies, plus any cctv that is installed can be used to pick you up as many might have seen with crime stories or Edward Snowden. I've had PTZ cctv hacked and I know of other companies with PTZ cctv have had their's hacked because they have spotted them moving around inside their office as they were not hidden behind darkened domes. I dont think people realise just how much surveillance there is today and the US Military have largely driven this at arms length, just like state assets have been ipo'd to keep them at arms length from the state. However when I have reported stuff to the police, its surprising how MS Windows suddenly doesnt work and makes it impossible to access your screen dumps, thats why you need a basic digital camera with no wifi or bluetooth to capture whats on screen because even cdr/dvdr's along with rw's will get wiped. I've even had my home accessed and old hard drives used as last resort backups wiped from a locked suitcase when on holiday one time and I only found that out weeks later. But that might be because it had allegations of Jeb Bush & other people rigging the elections in Florida for Bush to get a 2nd term in office. I dont know.

kibwen 5y ago

In the grim darkness of the near future, nobody leaves their house without painting their faces with CSAM in order to prevent cloud services from storing their images.

cryptonector 5y ago
Wow, that's pretty dark. On the plus side, pedophiles working at Facebook will have a great time. /s
- disqard 5y ago
  Did you happen to read this today, or did you just come up with that purely by coincidence? https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/16506/facebookmeta-executive-loses-job-after-attempted-child-sex-allegations-following-sting-operation https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/16506/facebookmeta-exec...
  - cryptonector 5y ago
    I saw it yesterday. Yes, I was referring to that.
- sorry_outta_gas 5y ago
  s/working/running
namrog84 5y ago
Too late. And even if did that. that could likely be deanonyimized with little effort. For those who don't already know, it takes very few data points to deanonyimize someone's data. With greater effort and efficiency you can have even less data points.
rapind 5y ago
Gait recognition already exists.
- iratewizard 5y ago
  Moonwalk everywhere and copyright trolls will do the rest.
nikolay 5y ago
People can be identified by way too many things - if you're Facebook and you buy all data available for sale and correlate and enrich it, then you're known forever and every step you make is also recorded and analyzed. Worst of all, they are those idiots who take pictures all the time and you eventually end up in pictures from many angles (all timestamped and geolocated). Combined with "anonymized" data from, say, carriers, you're no secret to anyone. But the biggest problem is that even if Facebook doesn't trace you, the governments will, and they have a lot more sources. Privacy is extinct!
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roywashere 5y ago

This could happen because previously people explicitly tagged you in their photos, so in new photos you're auto tagged On one side it is weird, on the other side it makes sense. For example: Einstein is not an FB user. But if people upload photos and tag him it makes sense after a couple photos FB learns what is Einstein

strulovich 5y ago
But you need a FB account it page to actually tag someone, no?
- dylan604 5y ago
  I think you missed the point about SHADOW PROFILE
- c22 5y ago
  I killed my facebook account years ago, but back then you could write anything you wanted in a tag.
freeflight 5y ago
FB is doing with facial recognition what Google is doing with image recognition for captchas. Calling that "weird" is an understatement, considering what's going on there; Users are asked to identify friends and family for facial recognition, to train an algorithm that FB then monetizes for all kinds of advertisement and surveillance shittery. The whole thing is imho way past "weird" and firmly in dystopian territory.

Mezzie 5y ago

Them and the credit reporting companies.

Terry_Roll 5y ago

Well there were multiple ai's that existed in the 90's that could work out who was typing at the keyboard, one of them was about 1-2MB in size, the need for usernames and passwords is somewhat confusing when you know about that and other ai's! When you consider the level of surveillance that exists today with the mobile phone, smart tv's vehicle tracking, cctv, jobs on computers you can tell when someone is running late and you can probably even work out why. Even if you dont have a mobile and live in a rural location, as you walk around our bodies interfere with wifi signals, we block them, so you could use routers like a phased radar array detecting temporary signal weakness and other anomalies, plus any cctv that is installed can be used to pick you up as many might have seen with crime stories or Edward Snowden. I've had PTZ cctv hacked and I know of other companies with PTZ cctv have had their's hacked because they have spotted them moving around inside their office as they were not hidden behind darkened domes. I dont think people realise just how much surveillance there is today and the US Military have largely driven this at arms length, just like state assets have been ipo'd to keep them at arms length from the state. However when I have reported stuff to the police, its surprising how MS Windows suddenly doesnt work and makes it impossible to access your screen dumps, thats why you need a basic digital camera with no wifi or bluetooth to capture whats on screen because even cdr/dvdr's along with rw's will get wiped. I've even had my home accessed and old hard drives used as last resort backups wiped from a locked suitcase when on holiday one time and I only found that out weeks later. But that might be because it had allegations of Jeb Bush & other people rigging the elections in Florida for Bush to get a 2nd term in office. I dont know.