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Facebook Starts Its Facial Recognition Push To Europeans (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Jimmy Nsubuga, a journalist at Metro, is among several European Facebook users who have reported getting notifications asking if they want to turn on face recognition technology. Facebook has previously said an opt-in option would be pushed out to all European users, and also globally, as part of changes to its T&Cs and consent flow. In Europe, the company is hoping to convince users to voluntarily allow it to deploy the privacy-hostile tech -- which was turned off in the bloc after regulatory pressure, back in 2012, when Facebook began using facial recognition to offer features such as automatically tagging users in photo uploads. But under impending changes to its T&Cs -- ostensibly to comply with the EU's incoming GDPR data protection standard -- the company has crafted a manipulative consent flow that tries to sell people on giving it their data; including filling in its own facial recognition blanks by convincing Europeans to agree to it grabbing and using their biometric data after all. Users who choose not to switch on facial recognition still have to click through a "continue" screen before they get to the off switch. On this screen Facebook attempts to convince them to turn it on -- using manipulative examples of how the tech can "protect" them.
I can't think of any even vaguely tenuous reason why it would.
However, you might be able to trick Facebook into giving you EU-resident treatment anyway.
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It will make no difference to China, the NSA, Thiel & Russia.
They all want total knowledge for total control ... if and when needed to end dissent.
... to delete Facebook. FB needs to die, to make room for social media that serves the interests of its users, rather than serving advertisers, companies like Cambridge Analytica, and other such vile putrid scum. Facebook needs to die fast and hard, to discourage investors from betting their money on business models that that rely on abusing their fellow citizens.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
GDPR is applicable world wide to all EU citizens or people residing in the EU. Facebook can be fined for GDPR violations in the US if you are an EU citizen living in the US. your scenario would not be covered by GDPR as you would be neither an EU citizen nor residing in the EU, lying on forms and network routing doesn't change those facts.
stay away from social media. Once friends of friends start to tag images, governments, police and employers will follow the data trail.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
their user, when seeking permission for face recognition, if they have asked all their friends if they are OK with facebook to recognising their faces ? I doubt it. So using the agreement of one facebook user facebook will work on the faces of many who have not agreed - and might not be aware that this is happening.