Videos demoing one of the sites have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and other platforms recently. 404 Media verified they can locate specific peoples' Tinder profiles using their photo, and found that the viral videos are produced by paid creators.
It’s a logical conclusion of facial recognition and mass indexing existing that anywhere remotely public you put your face is just fully public.
Honestly I have less of a problem with that than the illusion of privacy that’s been created anyway. Now we have a whole part of our economy that’s based on creeping on people, which couldn’t possibly exist if it was noticeable.
It’s still possible to be off of the digital surveillance grid, but it is hard and a small subculture at best. I’m in it. It’s less that you’re forced to use whatever thing than that people forget not everyone does.
The Clarke book brought up elsewhere had the the right idea, but the wrong manifestation.
It’s a logical conclusion of facial recognition and mass indexing existing that anywhere remotely public you put your face is just fully public.
Honestly I have less of a problem with that than the illusion of privacy that’s been created anyway. Now we have a whole part of our economy that’s based on creeping on people, which couldn’t possibly exist if it was noticeable.
s/noticeable/avoidable
It’s still possible to be off of the digital surveillance grid, but it is hard and a small subculture at best. I’m in it. It’s less that you’re forced to use whatever thing than that people forget not everyone does.
The Clarke book brought up elsewhere had the the right idea, but the wrong manifestation.