Re:FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces ...
by easyat on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:37AM
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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
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> 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?
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.