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Good idea

You mean don’t tempt you with a good time?

!Evil!< Odo!

Yes, that exact thing was the crux of a major lawsuit at one point.

Only if we stay quiet.

Dodge must be pretty happy.

And yes, that’s a security liability

Hardly. If anything it’s a benefit to security. You don’t have to run all the secret stuff using FOSS stuff. Just anything that runs the hardware (like the OS itself).

it is false. it is not uploading a photo of yourself that makes this a bad thing.

You still don’t seem to understand. I’ll try to explain it more simply:

If you’ve uploaded a photo of yourself with PII data (eg. your name), then that information can be scraped and used by ethically void companies (most of them) to build a database with your information on it. All without your knowledge or consent.

the major part that makes it bad that these systems are recording, and uploading data

Irrelevant to the point I was making, and it doesn’t falsify or contradict anything I’ve said.

“They said it could never happen. It could never be done. But I did it. First one in history to trigger such a great depression. The greatest depression.”

It’s not false. I previously worked for a facial recognition company. Every single facial recognition system uses a photo (or series of photos) to extract the mathematical representation of a face. But literally every single system uses a different algorithm. Once they make the extraction, that data is 100% useless to anyone other than that vendor/system.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter, because the source photo is what’s more valuable, since that can be used by any system to generate a face model of an individual and it can be read/seen/interpreted by people also.

it also assumes that we have uploaded pictures of ours to the internet.

Hence why I said “If you’ve ever uploaded a photo of yourself”.

that won’t make it known where will I be at any later point in time.

I’m sorry, what??

uploading that biometric data to god knows where

In the context of facial recognition, “biometric data” is just a picture of your face. If you’ve ever uploaded a photo of yourself to any website/service, then you’ve already lost that fight.

Edit: to everyone downvoting, explain why you think you know better than someone who worked in that industry and developed computer vision and facial recognition software for 10 years.

Edit 2: I think people are misunderstanding what I said. I’m not saying your photo “tracks where you are”, but rather if your face exists anywhere on the internet (with associated info about who you are) then that’s all anyone needs to build a facial recognition profile on you.

They just need to scrape various websites for the info and put it into a database. This is exactly what Clearview AI did. They scrapped Facebook and other publicly accessible websites and built a giant database that they then used to give police and other orgs access to via their software.

So my point was “think twice before you upload a photo with your face to any website or service”