Re:Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd...
by fixermark on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @09:32AM
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Agreed with everything except "The consumer's fault." It's the data age now; information about you will make its way into the global repository without any direct action on your part.
- If you're a professional, someone is providing a way for your customers to audit interactions with you
- If you're a driver, someone is tracking your car's movements
- If you buy products, someone is tracking you bought them
- If you ever communicate online, someone has logged that communication
- If you're ever seen in public, someone can tag your face
... and after all this, if you piss an individual off enough, that individual can create a pastebin and drop as much of your personal info on there as they care to.
We're already past the event horizon of private (easily-gleaned) information staying private; it's time to re-organize the solution space around the assumption that the information is public.
Re:Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd...
by id122015 on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @09:45AM
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buying products means tracking card payments. Maybe that was just the start, then fidelity cards followed, and even Amazon tracks what you search. And Google to sell you ads.
- If you're a professional, someone is providing a way for your customers to audit interactions with you
- If you're a driver, someone is tracking your car's movements
- If you buy products, someone is tracking you bought them
- If you ever communicate online, someone has logged that communication
- If you're ever seen in public, someone can tag your face
... and after all this, if you piss an individual off enough, that individual can create a pastebin and drop as much of your personal info on there as they care to.
We're already past the event horizon of private (easily-gleaned) information staying private; it's time to re-organize the solution space around the assumption that the information is public.