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[BrasSmonkey]

Please Review the Face Recognition Setting

Your face recognition setting is off. We want to let you know what face recognition is and how we use it, and then you can decide whether to turn it on or keep it off.

[TheButcher]

Mark Zuckerberg is not amused by this, and rightly so. This is a little too much privacy intrusion if you ask me, but I don't care, I neve rhave used Facebook nor plan to.


https://www.businessinsider.com/faceboo ... ing-2020-2

Facebook has become the latest major tech firm to send a cease-and-desist letter to facial recognition startup Clearview AI over unauthorized photo scraping.

"Scraping people's information violates our policies, which is why we've demanded that Clearview stop accessing or using information from Facebook or Instagram," Facebook's spokesperson told Business Insider.

New York-based startup Clearview AI develops facial recognition technology for catching criminals, and describes itself as operating in "full compliance with the law."

Despite Clearview's relatively low profile, the New York Times estimates that at least 600 police departments across the US use its vast, searchable photo database as part of their law enforcement efforts.

Facebook follows Google, YouTube and Twitter in sending a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, with the startup believed to have scraped similar content from those respective platforms.

On Wednesday, a YouTube spokesperson told Business Insider: "YouTube's Terms of Service explicitly forbid collecting data that can be used to identify a person. Clearview has publicly admitted to doing exactly that, and in response, we sent them a cease-and-desist letter."

A cease-and-desist letter is generally sent to an individual or a company to stop any unauthorized activity and to not restart it.

At heart, the issue seems to hinge on whether there's a real distinction between publicly accessible information and publicly available information. If information is publicly accessible, does that necessarily mean such information is available for others to use as they see fit?

For its part, Clearview has fiercely defended its actions.

In an interview with CBS on Wednesday, Clearview's CEO Hoan Ton-That defended the company's actions, arguing that the firm has a "First Amendment right" to access data in the public domain.

Business Insider has approached Facebook and Clearview AI for comment.

[HeidiHoe]

If you want privacy don't post your BS on the web. Quit using social media. Quit using store discount cards. Quit using credit cards. Get rid of your smart phone. Get rid of your home security cameras. Get a VPN. Live off grid as much as possible. Cover your face in public. Cross your fingers and good luck!

... and then you go out to a restaurant and a moron decides to snap a group shot, plasters you all over the web and for good measure tags location and your name to your image. I fucking hate it when people assume I'm okay with that.

Welcome to the 21 century where privacy is nothing but an illusion. It no longer exists.

[BrasSmonkey]

If you want privacy don't post your BS on the web. Quit using social media. Quit using store discount cards. Quit using credit cards. Get rid of your smart phone. Get rid of your home security cameras. Get a VPN. Live off grid as much as possible. Cover your face in public. Cross your fingers and good luck!

... and then you go out to a restaurant and a moron decides to snap a group shot, plasters you all over the web and for good measure tags location and your name to your image. I fucking hate it when people assume I'm okay with that.

Welcome to the 21 century where privacy is nothing but an illusion. It no longer exists.

you ever watch a show called the first 48? they scan it for street names. if they have your face it makes the case against the perp solid.

[HeidiHoe]

If you want privacy don't post your BS on the web. Quit using social media. Quit using store discount cards. Quit using credit cards. Get rid of your smart phone. Get rid of your home security cameras. Get a VPN. Live off grid as much as possible. Cover your face in public. Cross your fingers and good luck!

... and then you go out to a restaurant and a moron decides to snap a group shot, plasters you all over the web and for good measure tags location and your name to your image. I fucking hate it when people assume I'm okay with that.

Welcome to the 21 century where privacy is nothing but an illusion. It no longer exists.

you ever watch a show called the first 48? they scan it for street names. if they have your face it makes the case against the perp solid.

Yeah... I watch it sometimes.

Another thing that gets my goat is the DNA testing. Why would anyone in their right mind voluntarily send in their DNA to a for profit company just to satisfy their heritage curiosity? Nothing good will come from it in the long run.

[pornmafia]

Yeah... I watch it sometimes.

Another thing that gets my goat is the DNA testing. Why would anyone in their right mind voluntarily send in their DNA to a for profit company just to satisfy their heritage curiosity? Nothing good will come from it in the long run.

We already give Apple our finger print, eye details, face details.......

[T.B.W]

You can only blame yourselves for sharing so much information online, you put it out there for everyone to see and use how they want.

[TheButcher]

You can only blame yourselves for sharing so much information online, you put it out there for everyone to see and use how they want.

Amen

[viking]

Please Review the Face Recognition Setting

Your face recognition setting is off. We want to let you know what face recognition is and how we use it, and then you can decide whether to turn it on or keep it off.

You want to use that avatar pic on there see what they say

[BrasSmonkey]

Please Review the Face Recognition Setting

Your face recognition setting is off. We want to let you know what face recognition is and how we use it, and then you can decide whether to turn it on or keep it off.

You want to use that avatar pic on there see what they say

[jag]

do you have a facebook page?

[unicams]

do you have a facebook page?

Yes but for non-business use

[BrasSmonkey]

Class action suit against Clearview AI cites Illinois law that cost Facebook $550M well well fucking well...

[BHT]

Class action suit against Clearview AI cites Illinois law that cost Facebook $550M well well fucking well...

This face recognition is becoming then big thing

[TheButcher]

Class action suit against Clearview AI cites Illinois law that cost Facebook $550M well well fucking well...

This face recognition is becoming then big thing

yeh and wait until the databases get hacked and cooks get a hold of all your info along with your mug shot.