• Tosti@feddit.nl
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    I think this argument is silly. It’s like if you went Out in public and paparazzi started haunting everyone out on the street, all the time, even though you are no-one famous.

    There is such a thing as privacy, and the fact that I uploaded a picture does not give some other random company the right to wholesale process my images.

    We should resist giving companies these rights.

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        1 year ago

        Except the GDPR is written. The right to privacy has been part of several rights charters. But I do agree that legislation does need to catch up more.

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      Except it’s not because these are photos people are choosing to post.

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          The problem there is someone taking photos of you without your consent, not AI analyzing the photos

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        But not to be harvested by third parties to be used for God knows what. Sure the occasional meme is one thing (and can have an impact) but this impacts everyone, everywhere, all the time. It’s not just that one photo, it’s all photos of everyone and also other info like metadata, text posts etc. The fact we don’t even know how what and where the data is collected we don’t even know what they have combined into profiles.

        And this does not even speak to potential harm that could come from incorrectly associated info in your profile.

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      I am a privacy advocate but I will have to disagree with you. There is no such thing as privacy on public places , or in the public internet. If you upload a picture to the internet publicly then it is publicly available to everyone.

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        We can disagree here. But if I upload a picture with a specific intent (sharing it in my insta feed for example) why do other companies then have the right to wholesale take these images and use them for other purposes? I think they don’t.

        And there is a serious constraint on privacy violations like taking my picture when I’m out and about, since the photographer can only be on one place at a time.

        What we see here is privacy violations by automated systems on a scale never before seen. Just by taking the photos and processing them.