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Why 20 years? I'd assume that most people have been facetagged in enough photos on Facebook so that they can be found in every photo by every random person who
by Gravityloss 13y ago
Why 20 years?
I'd assume that most people have been facetagged in enough photos on Facebook so that they can be found in every photo by every random person who uploaded there, or to a few other cloud services, which any reasonably determined organization can scrape. People photograph a lot.
And then the CC cameras as well.
Though there are easier ways to spy on people, you can get all relevant info from their phone apps and social media services anyway.
- InclinedPlane 13y ago20 years is just a SWAG for when computational resources will be so abundant that the scariest level of analysis will be routine. Today it's simply not practical to determine automatically everyone appearing in a given random photo or video. Facebook vastly simplifies the problem (by narrowing the search scope tremendously), but there's a lot of content elsewhere. For example, consider identifying people by the way they walk, the clothes they tend to wear, their body build, etc. That sort of thing makes witness protection efforts practically useless, for example. The sheer amount and detail of information that could become available will enable things that we can't even remotely imagine today, but ultimately the biggest change will be loss of anonymity at every level and loss of privacy.