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> Hear hear. If you're worried about the privacy implications of Facebook, don't use it. I don't have a facebook account and I'm still alive. I hear that a lot
by selmnoo 12y ago
> Hear hear. If you're worried about the privacy implications of Facebook, don't use it. I don't have a facebook account and I'm still alive.
I hear that a lot, and it frustrates me very much, because it fundamentally betrays an understanding of Facebook's true nature.
I do not have a FB account, never have, and never will. Yet, my pictures are on there. Because my peers inevitably do use FB and take pictures of social gatherings where I'm at... and I get tagged. I have really no real recourse to this. At this point I actually cannot tell my friends to not take pictures of me... because that is not a reasonable request. A group picture has me in addition to other folks... the other folks may want the picture to be up on FB. So now, if I don't want to be on Facebook, I have to kill my social life.
- tedunangst 12y agoWhat happens if your friends post a picture of you on flickr? or wordpress? or livejournal? Or is FB the only picture service your friends use?
- acqq 12y agoFB is much worse. When my girlfriend logs in from some device for the first time, FB asks her to write who is on some picture to let her in. So even initially untagged pictures can get tagged for FB and even double/triple checked -- people who know that the wrong answer would keep them out of FB will tell the truth. And everything goes to THE DATABASE. Recently I haven't seen this, but I saw it personally more times.
- dTal 12y agoBloody hell, so Facebook is basically crowdsourcing facial recognition a la Mechanical Turk by making it a mandatory part of the login process, and calling it security? That's diabolically clever.
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- acqq 12y agoIt's nothing new for FB. Their main difference from Google was from the start: "we don't have to use algorithms to analyze the users, they fill in our database entrie themselves."
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