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Facebook Wants To Spy On People Using Their Phone's Camera and Analyze Facial Emotions (thesun.co.uk)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Sun: The social network applied for a patent to capture pictures of a user through their smartphone. The creepy designs, which date back to 2015, were discovered by software company CBI Insight, which has been analyzing Mark Zuckerberg's "emotion technology." Patent documents contain illustrations showing a person holding a smartphone with a camera taking a picture from which "emotion characteristics" like smiling or frowning are detected. If the person appears to like what they're seeing, Facebook could place more of the same type of content in front of them. Patents don't always make it through to the end product, so it's not clear whether Facebook will bring out this new feature. Researchers at CBI Insights warned that the plans could put a lot of people off using the service. Facebook appears to have tested out similar technology to work out which emoji to send to people using a selfie.
Facebook's masses remind me of Apple's 1985 Lemmings commercial. I don't plan to ever create FaceTwit accounts. I have actual friends.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Think of FB as a personal assistant that follows you around.
A personal assistant that follows me around, is someone I pay, who works for me. If they systematically did something I didn't like with my information; like sell me out to a beverage company and keep suggesting i try Budweiser light lime mohito... then I'd fire them, and hire a personal assistant who had the sense not to pull that kind of shit.
So, no it is nothing like a personal assistant. Its a lot more like a creepy stalker, who i am not paying, who is taking notes about what am doing even after i told them to fuck off, and who sold out to Budweiser to put lime mojito banners every where i turn since they saw me drink a beer once.
I'd welcome a digital personal assisant that worked for me... that actively sheilded me from ads, that told budweiser to get bent, that didn't try to increase my spending on shit i didn't need and dress it up as as 'service'... etc.
FB / Amazon / etc is NOT THAT THING.