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Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by Cthulhu_ on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:32AM (#20470179)
It's because there's not been a lot of scary things happening yet. Or if they have, it's been on individuals - like someone seeing themselves on a billboard or advert. But because the datasets are so massive, people are reduced to statistics which is a lot less scary.

Of course, if you look at history that can change overnight. Or actually it won't, it's more likely a "boiling frog" kinda thing where nobody's aware of anything bad happening until it's too late.

Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by easyat on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:37AM (#20470243)
The psyops conducted by Cambridge Analytica and similar organizations in the US, England, and around the world is pretty scary
Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by T1glober on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:29PM (#20471454)
> someone seeing themselves on a billboard or advert

I just pictured 4chan hacking into a photo database and putting people's faces on a bunch of billboards.

Surely if this happened to more people, the public would become more privacy-conscious, no?

Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ... by magashna on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:48AM (#20470380)
No need to pay someone for their likeness when you can generate the average face of your targeted market