UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance

Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by Chaebixi on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:23AM (#15499867)

I just tagged myself in a bunch of stock photos (with the same few models) to foil the algorithms. Haven't tested the effects since I've long disabled facial-recognition tagging in my profile, though.

I suppose someday they might implement features to try to detect and filter out that kind of thing, but then it will time to abandon the platform totally.

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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by e12e on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @01:28PM (#15501052)

There's no need for a data hoarder to rely on platform specific facial recognition - they'll presumably ingest all photos and tag/group them themselves. This of course includes images where you've been photographed in a group/public place. I imagine it's pretty trivial to "walk" from a single known-good photo (eg: booking / surveillance photo taken in connection to a "suspicious" public gathering, atm cctv, or where a person is figuring in the same photo as a known "person of interest") - to ~99.9% of all photos in the dataset...

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