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    Tech writer suggests '10 Year Challenge' may be collecting data

    for facial recognition algorithm

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/tech...ithm-1.4259579

    As innocuous as it may seem, the viral “10 Year Challenge” flooding social media feeds everywhere may have been created to collect large amounts of data for future facial recognition software, according to one prominent tech writer.
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    Brenda McPhail, the director of the Privacy, Technology, and Surveillance Project for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said she suspects most people share photos of themselves without thinking of the potential consequences.
    “I’m sure most people when they post that 10 Year Challenge, they’re like ‘Oh, I’m posting this so my friends can get a laugh at how big my hair was 10 years ago and they’re not thinking beyond that,” she told CTVNews.ca on Friday.
    “Whether or not this would be used for facial recognition and age progression algorithms, it could be and we need to start thinking about what the potential uses of our information could be before we share it willy nilly.” ...

    Tom Keenan, a professor of environmental design at the University of Calgary and a fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, said he doesn’t think Facebook wouldn’t really need to create this meme challenge because it already has access to time-stamped photos of its users. The author of the book “Technocreep” said O’Neill makes a good point that the 10 Year Challenge could have been orchestrated by someone looking to collect data because the source of the meme remains unknown.
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    However, she also said it has the potential to be used for “genuinely creepy” reasons, such as to assess a person’s eligibility for health insurance.
    You are wrong about police.

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    Technology is going to ruin natural lives eventually, you arent going to feel private on the toilet or even talking in whispers to your spouse.

    They will be able to count the hairs hanging out of your nose, just like casinos can do and have been doing for at least 25 yrs, they tell you they have no surveillance in restrooms, that be a lie they catch employees smoking in every restroom on the premises, pencil point cameras
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    Data is the new nuclear nation status.

    Privacy is a thing of the past.

    Freedom no longer frees you.
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    Zuckerberg, for one, probably keeps an enormous log of every divulgance of personal information on FB soas to create profiles he can sell to whoever is in the market to buy it. It's not his information to sell, however. It belongs to the individual members of his bigot board, but hey, who's going to prove Zuckerberg stole it for personal monetary gain?

    It's very dicy and amoral, in my opinion, and you know damn well he's doing it.

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    Never had a Facebook account.

    Never will.

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    A no-account, eh? Yep, figured.

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