Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by beagle3 on Saturday August 12, 2017 @03:24PM (#14999522)

> However, if you're able to leave or cut your usage, they extend no influence whatsoever.

My friends often upload pictures of me, tagged with GPS coordinates and user; And even though most have stopped tagging me (as I have asked), Facebook often does offer them to tag me, which means that Facebook has enough pictures of me to identify me in random pictures (even though I never uploaded a single one myself).

Google collects information from users themselves, and have some info from people mailing them (if you are not on google yourself, it's likely more than half your emails are still coming or going to a google server).

But Facebook has co-opted your friends and family to spy on you, all day every day. Very much big brother.

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by saurik on Saturday August 12, 2017 @04:05PM (#14999690)

When you upload photos to Facebook as part of an album, my experience is it doesn't even ask: it just goes ahead and tags people it recognizes, and it even sends them a push notification that you did that even before you click "save" on the album (it even attempts to live synchronize the text you are typing as the album description, which is insane).

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by netsharc on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:54AM (#15006637)

In my imaginary screenplay, a guy is hiding from the US government, but the NSA will find him because they have access to Facebook's face recognition system, and he happens to be in the background of a photo a tourist took.. "We have a face recognition hit, he's in... Thailand!"

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by jaflo on Saturday August 12, 2017 @08:10PM (#15000784)

What do you mean by live synchronizing the description?

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by saurik on Saturday August 12, 2017 @11:05PM (#15001277)

Like, every few seconds the description of the in-progress album is synchronized to the live album you don't even realize is live yet.

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by pyman on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:21PM (#15082787)

Facebook is worst than the KGB

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by glibgil on Saturday August 12, 2017 @04:27PM (#14999796)

You can turn this off. You don't need to ask your friends to stop. https://www.facebook.com/help/187272841323203

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by AlexandrB on Saturday August 12, 2017 @07:13PM (#15000572)

I'm willing to bet the difference is purely cosmetic. Facebook likely still runs facial recognition on all uploaded photos even if it doesn't suggest tags.

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by ryukafalz on Sunday August 13, 2017 @08:48AM (#15002693)

Not only that, they need to do facial recognition for that setting to work.

>When you turn off tag suggestions, Facebook won’t suggest that people tag you in photos that look like you.

Otherwise, how would they know it looks like you?

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by rmc on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:25AM (#15019090)

> which means that Facebook has enough pictures of me to identify me in random pictures (even though I never uploaded a single one myself).

Facebook probably uses more than just facial recognition, it can also use the metadata. They know who uploaded it, so they can narrow down the "list of candidate faces" from 7 billion to the much smaller number of people your friend knows/tags people in photos.

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