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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.
This is why I always point my phone camera at my junk when reading Facebook.
I don't want anonymous people on facebook seeing my face.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Would it be able to read hand gestures too? Because I know which one they'll get from my camera...
Researchers at CBI Insights warned that the plans could put a lot of people off using the service.
Bullshit. Facebook is already an unbelievably creepy source of intrusive personal surveillance, and people flock to it by the billions. They meet someone in real life they never told FB about, and suddenly see that person suggested as a FB friend, because FB detected their phones with he FB app installed came into close proximity.
Most people simply do not care. There is no level of creepiness that could ever put them off. This would be marketed as a good thing, and people would eat it up like they do every other form of spying.
This is just another step towards proving that. maybe the masses will never learn, maybe its too late, but at least i have started getting my friends and family to drop the app off of their phones. They are already spending more time outside and enjoying more of the world around them.
It also removes the performance anxiety that facebook creates.
Free your self from your voluntary slavery, facebook adds no net benefit to your life, only stress, anxiety and fake friends.
If my phone can monitor my facial expressions while at work some AI is going to call the white coats on me or think I am about to go postal ;)
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We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/firm-facebooks-shadow-profiles-are-frightening-dossiers-on-everyone/
https://www.groovypost.com/news/facebook-shadow-accounts-non-users/
lots more if you do it yourself
...just like you do on your home PC. It's your life. Control your own privacy as best you can, if you still choose to use a smart phone.
When you want to do selfies, fine, it's your choice, and then uncover the camera, otherwise, keep the camera covered.
For the really hard-core, do not even own a smart phone. Use the free-with-your-plan models that just voice and text and camera, and have a removable battery. Keep the phone in a case that covers the camera lens, blacking it out, and making any attempts to covertly take pictures when you do not want it to, not possible. Remove the battery when not in use.
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
"I refuse to install the Facebook and Messenger app"
Full stop. I won't dabble in Facebook, period. I don't have an account and never will.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
See above. The only application that I allow to access my phone's camera (knowingly, anyway) is the camera application.
Does Facebook even realize that many companies don't allow camera on the premises? Heck, I can recall it was nearly ten years ago sitting in company meetings where sensitive business plans were to be discussed and everyone was asked to turn off their phones and put them away. And it wasn't because of the potential for an annoying ringtone interrupting the meeting. Corporate espionage aside, the invasion of privacy that something like this potentially opens up is mind boggling. It sure seems to me that they're not thoroughly thinking through these ideas before making them public.
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Maybe Facebook's business model is based on patenting ideas stolen from dystopian literature (e.g. 1984, Farenheit 451, Brave New World, etc.)?