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.