Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are deactivated

Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by allears on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:20PM (#29817830)

I'm pretty sure FB accessed the contact lists of some of my friends. I've never installed the app or otherwise interacted with FB.

I also know that one of my so-called "friends" posted a group picture with me in it, and labeled the people in the picture. At one point I did a search to see what information was out there about myself, and that picture popped up associated with my name.

I guess that I'm just another casualty of the information age, in spite of my best efforts.

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Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by nerdponx on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:30PM (#29817917)

I have resorted to actively asking people to not tag me in photos.

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Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by JKCalhoun on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:19PM (#29819339)

We reach.

But with ML facial recognition I figure the jig is up.

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Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by politician on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:09AM (#29819690)

The jig is up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI

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Re:Facebook collecting people's data even when accounts are ... by vintermann on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:13AM (#29820384)

Clearview is notable only for their brazenness. It's easy to code up face recognition these days if you have the data, and again, it's brazenness (in scraping) which is Clearview's main advantage here.

In general, AI that's hawked at CEO types and police is mostly snake oil, inferior to what you can make yourself if you read hackernews and are willing to dive into Arxiv.

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