• mesamune@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    A company called Clearview AI broke that unwritten rule and developed a powerful facial recognition system using billions of images scraped from social media. Primarily, Clearview sells its product to law enforcement. Clearview has also explored a pair of smart glasses that would run its facial recognition technology. The company signed a contract with the U.S. Air Force on a related study.

    Just another reason to not post all your images to social media. Share with family/friends who care but thats it.

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      2 months ago

      Right?! That is all it takes to save your privacy is just not having social media but noone is willing to do that.

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        2 months ago

        The main concern I have is unavoidably having my picture taken. Say I go to a family gathering, of course they will take my picture if it’s a big event. They then will probably share it everywhere. I can’t reasonably say “don’t post this picture on the internet” they probably will.

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      2 months ago

      Do not share the image in a private Facebook group. Don’t post it on popular direct messaging services.

      The only way (which I still don’t trust), some privacy-preserving E2E encrypted file storage server or (which I trust) via your own Matrix server.

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        1 month ago

        private Facebook group

        Does such a thing actually exist? Seems that “private” and “Facebook” really shouldn’t be in the same sentence together.

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          1 month ago

          People (the general populace) think that if a group visibility is set to Private, then it’s truly private 🤷🏻