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Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by halflings on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @05:20PM (#15811443)
The more data they keep about these images that they are promising to delete, the more they would make themselves liable to be sued for privacy violation (especially in the EU).

It is a blurred line, but one that most rational companies (=not Uber) would prefer to avoid in the first place by only storing data that is necessary for their main functionality.

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Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by Freestyler_3 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:51PM (#15812774)
Before the EU sues there will be warnings and talks, plenty of time to collect a lot of faces.
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Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by erk__ on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:54AM (#15814624)
But that is going to change in the new year with the new laws. with up to 2% of their global revenue in fines. And the fines IIRC can be issued backwards as well.
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Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by goialoq on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:20PM (#15812209)
What is Facebook's "main functionality"?
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Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by andrei_says_ on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:36PM (#15812283)
Monetizing on people’s relationships and social addiction, collecting and providing detailed data on all user activities, sentiments and connections, selling sets of such data to ...?
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Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by kfrzcode on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:57PM (#15812408)
Advertisers. If you've ever bought an ad on facebook and see you can pick your target audience by which types of food they shop for or their income range from 10k increments alongside thousands of other filters.... fuck man they have a helluva ad platform
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Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by halflings on Sunday December 03, 2017 @01:55AM (#15836371)
Not facebook's main functionality. The feature's functionality.

e.g if you are building a captcha test feature, it should not keep more data than is needed for it to function.

This is the policy where I work at least, and I believe this is shared by most privacy-conscious companies (which facebook is... as far as the legal definition of privacy is concerned :)).

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