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This is a general question; is no one else worried about Amazon or whichever company trolling your photos with face recognition, building up a graph of who you
by godshatter 4y ago
This is a general question; is no one else worried about Amazon or whichever company trolling your photos with face recognition, building up a graph of who you are connected to, all in the name of "giving you a better shopping experience"? Or who knows what else they might do with the meta data or AI object recognition shenanigans.
I guess I don't extend much trust to the companies that provide these services, especially if they are free. But then I don't take many photos nor share them around much. That might change the equation a bit if I was more into that. What photos I do take that I want to keep I download to my desktop.
Maybe I'm just too damned cynical.
- unixhero 4y agoI am very worried about this. Yes. Facebook already did this since 2007, or earlier.
- CharlesW 4y ago> Maybe I'm just too damned cynical. FWIW, I don't think so. There's such a thing as healthy paranoia. Privacy considerations definitely factored into my decision to move my library to iCloud Photos from Google Photos a couple years ago. I still maintain more than one backup of that library — one local, and one to a cloud backup provider.
- rchaud 4y agoAmazon Photos for face recognition Amazon Alexa for voice recognition and eavesdropping Amazon subsidiary Ring.com to spy on your neighbor's driveway AWS pulling it all together to send this panopticon to your local police department.
- brokenmachine 4y ago>Maybe I'm just too damned cynical. Imagine if the nazis had access to the data that people store online now... There wouldn't be any Schindler's list, he'd already have been in jail because the algorithm said so. You can't opt out when everyone else has already opted you in.