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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by chinathrow on Saturday May 07, 2016 @03:56PM (#11651132)
That should be opt-in. What a fucked up feature.

Edit: I don't give any of my friends consent to use that feature - yet the would still scan my face. How can this even be legal.

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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by toomuchtodo on Saturday May 07, 2016 @04:56PM (#11651310)
Lax data privacy laws in the US (compared to Europe).

Lobby your congressperson to fix it.

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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by plainOldText on Saturday May 07, 2016 @10:54PM (#11652408)
You don't need to take it to the congress; just stop using the services of a company whose practices you don't agree with. If more people would do this, maybe the company will get the message and change its practices.
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by takeda on Sunday May 08, 2016 @01:38AM (#11652779)
This information is too valuable to dissuade companies from collecting and using it. You can't do much as an user if everyone is doing it. In many situations you might not even know that you're being tracked, there already technologies that track you in public places.

IMO this is something that should be regulated.

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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by toomuchtodo on Saturday May 07, 2016 @11:06PM (#11652432)
Pragmatically, its easier for me to hold congresspeoples' feet to the fire.
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by jgalt212 on Saturday May 07, 2016 @07:23PM (#11651834)
Congress is broke and the tech companies know it and optimize against this and will continue to make hay while the sun shines (i.e. before the US produces any effective consumer privacy legislation).
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by toomuchtodo on Saturday May 07, 2016 @08:18PM (#11652012)
It doesn't cost anything to enact legislation. Congress is a sunk cost.
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by Spooky23 on Saturday May 07, 2016 @11:49PM (#11652524)
Funny.

Congress cannot afford the lawyers needed to write that kind of legislation. The lobbyists write the laws they advocate for.

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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by toomuchtodo on Sunday May 08, 2016 @12:12AM (#11652579)
Strangely enough, Elizabeth Warren was able to put together comprehensive legislation to work towards ending Intuit's (to name the largest offender) corporate welfare [1] in the tax prep software space. Or is there an anti-private corporation/pro IRS tax prep lobbyist I'm missing?

[1] https://www.warren.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1110

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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by Spooky23 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @09:52AM (#11654059)
I don't follow the sausagemaking process in DC, so I don't precisely know in that instance, but my guess would be a public advocacy group.

In my state legislature, which I follow, it's really common for various groups to write sample legislation. Everything from duck habitat preservation to open source software.

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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by maaku on Saturday May 07, 2016 @06:04PM (#11651547)
The article says it is opt-in.
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by chinathrow on Saturday May 07, 2016 @06:19PM (#11651601)
I saw that now too. Opt-in isn't enough here, the user of the messenger app should get consent from all folks on those pictures before auto-uploading anything.

What another trove of data for FB. Disgusting.

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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by sp332 on Saturday May 07, 2016 @09:15PM (#11652143)
Facebook lets you opt-out of being tagged, which is about all they can do. The photos don't being to you, plus they're not going to know that you're in a photo until after it gets uploaded.
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by Kristine1975 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @08:46AM (#11653809)
>which is about all they can do

They could not use facial recognition in the first place.

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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by lazzlazzlazz on Sunday May 08, 2016 @07:53AM (#11653641)
It's opt-in. Do research before experiencing moral outrage.
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