How normal am I?

Re:How normal am I? by Gigachad on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:30AM (#31986495)

Most people have such weird and illogical views on privacy. A website collecting face pictures without anything else is pretty useless. Walking in to a retail store owned by a company using facial recognition on a huge range of owned stores is a serious privacy issue.

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Re:How normal am I? by danparsonson on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:07AM (#31986747)

Face pictures and IP adresses...

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Re:How normal am I? by worthless-trash on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:20AM (#31986836)

And browser fingerprint and operating system.

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Re:How normal am I? by toss1 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:24AM (#31988527)

And the bait on the hook is not a good indicator either - an appeal to a deep drive or insecurity in many people.

Obviously not determinative in itself ,but if I wanted to harvest a lot of faces in a hurry, that's exactly the sort of bait that I would use (I can hardly think of a better one off the top of my head).

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Re:How normal am I? by moonchrome on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:20AM (#31987890)

So what's the concern here ? I'm sure I have plenty of photos of me online tagged by other people.

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Re:How normal am I? by worthless-trash on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:14AM (#32147461)

Do those photos show you operating system and browser ?

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Re:How normal am I? by loopback_device on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:19AM (#31986828)

Not useless at all, there are usually enough pictures of people on the internet with names, metadata, etc attached to immediately link and identify. Basically what Clearview does (did?). I would not be surprised if this was a data collection siphon.

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Re:How normal am I? by greggsy on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:44AM (#31988117)

> I would not be surprised if this was a data collection siphon.

Except for it being sponsored by Eu - home to the most effective privacy jurisdiction on the planet.

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Re:How normal am I? by djbebs on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:50AM (#31988163)

The same organization pushing for mass surveillance?

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Re:How normal am I? by jhbadger on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:04AM (#31989081)

I don't think this is a scam/data collection site (as others have recognized the researcher involved, etc.), but what would stop a random website from claiming it was "sponsored by the EU"?

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Re:How normal am I? by eurasiantiger on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:23AM (#31986859)

Easy enough to check using browser dev tools.

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