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It's always confusing to see what the internet police go after.

Total scams ripping thousands to hundreds of thousands off from people (tech support scams etc). Crickets.

An opt in feature on the facebook platform that is useful (at least to some). Multiple Attorney General press conferences :)

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But their facial recognition is not opt-in. You cannot prevent other people from uploading photos of you then tagging your face in them, training Facebook's facial recognition to your face even if you consciously never upload your image a single time.

If you don't like that, you're going to hate this.

https://youtu.be/KT18KJouHWg

Basically they can find you from your DNA, even if only a couple very distant relatives ever gave theirs.

I get what you're saying but that's unguided learning though.

Facebook doesn't have any way of linking that face fingerprint to you to even check your consent - but a part of me doubts that when they do make the link they remove the fingerprint bc you didn't opt in.

You can only be suggested as a name for someone else's photo if you've turned face recognition on.

"If you’d like other people to see tag suggestions for you, you’ll need to turn on your face recognition setting."

So you need to opt in to it to let others tag you.

But how does it know that "This is slownews45's face, so don't show any auto-tag recommendation for it."..?

You got the algorithm backwards, if slownews45 uploads a pic, the system gathers all of their friends who opted in and compares any found faces to the templates of the opted in folks. If it doesn't get a hit, it simply moves on

The negative impact of facial recognition technology is much bigger than the impact of scams.

Could you be more specific ?

It makes more sense when you stop and think that there are no single group of "internet police" and that in reality it's millions of people with their ethics, personal views and natural inability to rank risk.

Are we not going after both?

Let's marshall the energy. I'm sure we can find it. Wanna lead the charge?

No - we are not going after both - the AG's take high profile low hanging easy target cases.

I've personally tried to get police / DA / AG type response on a fair number of white collar type cases. Crickets.

Stolen checks / AP fraud, even stuff that would be pretty damn easy to track down (ie, whose name was on account that cashed this check) - there is almost no follow-up. It really can be eye opening.

There's Jim Browning for that

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