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Facebook Judge Frowns on Bid To Toss Biometric Face Print Suit (bloomberg.com)
Facebook faced a skeptical judge over its second request to get out of a lawsuit alleging its photo scanning technology flouts users' privacy rights. From a report: "The right to say no is a valuable commodity," U.S. District Judge James Donato said Thursday during a hearing in San Francisco. The case concerns the "most personal aspects of your life: your face, your fingers, who you are to the world." The owner of the world's largest social network faces claims that it violated the privacy of millions of users by gathering and storing biometric data without their consent. Alphabet's Google is fighting similar claims in federal court in Chicago.
While your face, your fingers, and who you are to the world are indeed all quite personal, I would think that one's genitals are even more personal.
Most people don't cover their face, fingers and who they are on a nearly-constant basis. Yet that's exactly what nearly all people do with their genitalia. That makes me think that for most people, their genitals are far more personal than their face, their fingers, or who they are to the world.
...is reason #31678956784789.8 why I'll never use their stupid Facebook apps. Force the issue, and I cease to go near the site at all.
Bad enough my family pretty much requires that I have an account on that damnable website in the first place, but I tolerate it just enough at this point. The only reason I (and I suspect quite a few others) still tolerate it is because (for now) I still maintain a modicum of control over the experience (viz. ad-blockers and such via web browser).
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
You only ever volunteer information to Facebook, and you volunteer to accept their terms as well.
Who edits the editors on this site?
Guess Facebook should start requiring you upload pictures of your genitals as well as your face...oh wait
While your face, your fingers, and who you are to the world are indeed all quite personal, I would think that one's genitals are even more personal.
If somebody posts a picture of my genitals online, it's far less likely to be associated with me personally than if somebody posts a picture of my face.
I'm not trying to say that my face is the "most personal aspect of my life," but it's more personal than a picture of my junk. If FB scanned, identified, and labeled my genitals as "gnick's junk," that would be different.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
FB is a scourge of our time, along with all the other "social media" apps/sites. A downward spiral of privacy loss and big-brother-esque omniscience.
Speak for yourself, my junk's well known to females worldwide.
Fuckerberg?
Goats?
Did they face scan the judge's frown for biometric purposes?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Amen, me either.
But every asshole family member and friend and even acquaintance has gleefully been trying to photograph and tag me for the past 15+ years, so I am pretty sure a few have slipped through.
America hasn't been a land of freedom in a long time, but the real sickness is that it isn't even a land of respect for privacy anymore, which at least when I was growing up was one of the strongest values instilled into me by the older generation of friends and family. Judging by some of the darker things brought to light in the past decade that is not necessarily a bad thing, but given how asymmetrically empowered privacy has become (ie corporations and public figures often have it plus access to other's personal information, but private individuals lose a little bit more with each passing day.)
Wrong. I have no Facebook account. I never clicked through their wall of text. But I may or may not have ever been tagged in a photo uploaded to Facebook. It's hard to say since I don't have a Facebook account.
Well if you had an account you could be notified when tagged and be able to remove your tag from the photos of others. :-)
On a more serious note, don't tags need a facebook account to reference? So no account, no tag?
Live on an island somewhere if you want to say no.
Facebook is more akin to a gigantic tumor on society than some platform that has anything to do with being social.
Isn't facbook doing the same thing iphone X is doing, recording faces? Where's the outrage against apple?
You buy status with Apple, but you post status to Facefarm. A shit ton more users too.
No seriously. I would light the bitch with a smile on my face, the last thing he'd see. Glorious irony.