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Re:You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record o... by rhacker on Friday September 06, 2019 @05:25PM (#20900051)
I think d10 is saying that, by deleting your face template, they will still have "unnamed person 7749" in 45 different photos, which happen to be YOU, which they won't every say again, but you're still in there, linked up to all those people... possibly creating new relationships between people that don't have the same friends but went to the same wedding, all because you're in both sets of photos.
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Re:You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record o... by x0x0 on Friday September 06, 2019 @06:17PM (#20900385)
Exactly. They're not promising not to create co-occurrence matrices with a specific unknown user as far as I can see.
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Re:You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record o... by pesenti on Saturday September 07, 2019 @07:53AM (#20903217)
No we don't. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20903110
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Re:You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record o... by rhacker on Sunday September 08, 2019 @01:50PM (#20912070)
Ok, sounds good and I belive you - it is nice hearing from the team directly involved in this project.
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