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Sharing my face with my camera with a random website? Sure, what could go wrong... /s
by kuu 4y ago
Sharing my face with my camera with a random website? Sure, what could go wrong... /s
- raverbashing 4y agoDid you read the terms of service? ;)
- croes 4y agoDo you believe the terms of service?
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- ccbccccbbcccbb 4y agoYep, another magic spell akin to 'software license' that is supposed to dispell all evil.
- rmbyrro 4y agoI believe that I verified it runs locally, even offline, not sending data to a remote server.
- croes 4y agoAt least for the moment
- mynameisvlad 4y agoWhat's their incentive to change that after the HN surge?
- Rerarom 4y agoDon't we all have tons of pictures of ourselves online already?
- mlatu 4y agonot all of us ^^
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- croes 4y agoNo
- barbarbar 4y agoNo. Zero.
- mortehu 4y agoDo you avoid tourist attractions and cities so that you aren't included in other people's photos? Even though I'm not an Apple customer, for example, I'm sure they could infer much of my movements from their photo database using only other people's photos (I live in a city).
- Joeboy 4y agoAlmost all, yes. The people who don't are obviously not normal, so they don't need the website.
- noisy_boy 4y agoAnd by that logic, people who do are normal so they don't need to use the website either. So no one needs to use the website :)
- pawelmurias 4y agothat's not how logic works
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- NoboruWataya 4y agoWorth it to be told I am more attractive than 100% of the Spice Girls.
- Hamuko 4y agoSpice Girls back then or Spice Girls now?
- packetlost 4y agoIt doesn't specify, so I can only assume both and which it compares to depends on how ugly the user is.
- cal85 4y agoDevil’s advocate here. What could go wrong? If you open a website in a fresh browser context and let it use your camera, isn’t this about the same as walking down a street with CCTV cameras?
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y agoIt could use that to impersonate you in a mobile banking application through biometric authentication. It's getting pretty popular in my country (I think it's required by law or something).
- kkjjkgjjgg 4y agoweb site has much more information about you that it can connect.
- Gigachad 4y agoMost people have such weird and illogical views on privacy. A website collecting face pictures without anything else is pretty useless. Walking in to a retail store owned by a company using facial recognition on a huge range of owned stores is a serious privacy issue.
- danparsonson 4y agoFace pictures and IP adresses...
- worthless-trash 4y agoAnd browser fingerprint and operating system.
- moonchrome 4y agoSo what's the concern here ? I'm sure I have plenty of photos of me online tagged by other people.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoThey give a pinky promise, that they won't do evil!
- avnigo 4y agoFor the extra paranoid, I can confirm that it does work offline after you press the button and let it load. You can hide your face until it loads, and then cut the connection. Be sure to close the tab before you go online again.
- danuker 4y agoService Workers are a thing. If you're extra extra paranoid, use a disposable VM in Qubes OS. https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-use-disposables/ https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-use-disposables/
- _Algernon_ 4y agoOr disable service workers
- traverseda 4y agoOr just open it in private browsing?
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoWait—service workers can keep running after a tab is closed?!
- danuker 4y agoMaybe or maybe not, depending on browser implementation. They can be kept in memory if the browser sees no memory need. But they might store stuff to localStorage. Right - localStorage is also a thing. And so are cookies.
- arisAlexis 4y agoEU funded project, really not very risky.
- seanw444 4y ago> Government-funded project, really not very risky. No thanks.
- floodle 4y agoI'm guessing you're from the US and the parent poster is from the EU?
- seanw444 4y agoCorrect. I don't care which government is in question, though. None are worthy of my trust or data.
- tinco 4y agoI work for a company that does projects that are sometimes funded by the EU. I've never heard of the EU ever asking for something in return. You submit your project, the EU either decides to give you money, or not, and you do your project. Sometimes they check whether you've actually done what you said you'd do. No one in the EU has time to deal with the output of the billions of euro's they invest in random projects.
- gmfawcett 4y agoIt's not clear if you're trying to make us feel better (the EU doesn't care about this project's data) or worse (the EU has ineffective oversight over this project -- anything could be going on).
- Nimitz14 4y agoThat's not true. You clearly have no clue of the administrative side of things.