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The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech (404 Media Article) (www.404media.co)
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A viral TikTok account is doxing ordinary and otherwise anonymous people on the internet using off-the-shelf facial recognition technology, creating content and growing a following by taking advantage of a fundamental new truth: privacy is now essentially dead in public spaces.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That whole "no expectation of privacy in public spaces" thing shouldn't be limitless. Ideally it should be closer to the number of people you expect to be present in that public space. People can take photos, record their day, and whatever else they want, but there should be limits around what they can do with the content.

I don't see any laws around this any time soon, but it just never made sense to me how you can be recorded just existing and then a few million people can see it and harass you about it.

At the very least, doxxing people like this should be illegal.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe stuff like this starts getting those “I’ve got nothing to hide” people to think a little more about privacy.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Group of accounts set up webcams outside of busy public restrooms. Records people's faces as they exit the bathroom and how long they were in there. Auto-ID's and sends email asking as part of a public poll if they agree with the statement "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

N: auto erase image and associated data

Y: auto publish bathroom exiting face and time spent in restroom to tiktok.

Let's really get the privacy conversation started.

We can call it Operation Feardrop

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

No expectation of privacy in public spaces is for use like photos and videos that just record you, not track you. This isn't no expectation of privacy, this is expect to be identified publicly, it's definitely a step above.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Suddenly I'm very glad that I never uploaded any pictures of myself to any social media network ever.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My employer made us all put headshots on the company website. I'm not thrilled about that. And my partner and frienda keep posting pictures with me in them to Facebook, though I try to avoid it. It's hard to stay hidden from the internet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I remember my mother had a similar situation where she and a few coworkers complained about the headshots and they ultimately removed them.

It sucks that your friends upload pictures of you without consent. That's not a nice thing to do...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't want to be a douche but don't you think someone else may have uploaded one of two? It happened to me, they used my name too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are two pictures I know of from my graduation, but unless you know where I stand in the group picture it's literally impossible to spot me. My face is half-covered by someone else, which I was really upset about back then haha :D

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So when the FBI does it its all part of the plan but when some guy on the internet does it everyone loses there shit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But when the FBI scans my face I know they have the best intentions /s

But seriously, this could be dangerous for a lot of people. Imagine someone's stalker having a hold on some of this information?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's a great concern we should make it so all content is scanned by the government to ensure nobody can do anything bad. Think of the children.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Apps like tiktok/instagram etc should have a built it face blur/censor that can automatically face track every face and you can select to unblur your face. They should have this on by default

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Privacy is deteriorating by the day. The only upside is that perhaps it will wake people up, eventually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"People" really don't give a shit about their privacy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The account is @detectivespoopy if anyone else was curious

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks but no thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I aint even visiting tiktok for this shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

wHy dOnT yOU uSe SoCiAL mEDiA

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yeah like hell i will. remember to protect yourself with something like fawkes when posting pictures of your face online, fellas.