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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by notliketherest on Saturday May 07, 2016 @04:45PM (#11651283)
People also use to think putting hour real name on the internet was creepy. Little by little the privacy erosion has brought us where we are today - standing naked in front of a corporate monster profiting off our data.
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by maaku on Saturday May 07, 2016 @06:05PM (#11651550)
So invent an open-source federated server with deep learning capabilities that can do this and keep us in charge of our data.
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by mattnewton on Saturday May 07, 2016 @06:19PM (#11651603)
I'm not sure anyone would pay for this feature to use themselves; to me it seems to exist as a side effect of searching for better advertising
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Re:Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photo... by maaku on Sunday May 08, 2016 @12:23PM (#11654591)
> I'm not sure anyone would pay for this feature to use themselves

I said open-source.

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