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From: |
hellekin |
Subject: |
www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:25:06 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: hellekin <hellekin> 15/11/30 16:25:06
Modified files:
proprietary : proprietary-surveillance.html
Log message:
Replace Facebook agic Photo text (refs #1060569)
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.32&r2=1.33
Patches:
Index: proprietary-surveillance.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-surveillance.html,v
retrieving revision 1.32
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -b -r1.32 -r1.33
--- proprietary-surveillance.html 26 Nov 2015 16:13:20 -0000 1.32
+++ proprietary-surveillance.html 30 Nov 2015 16:25:05 -0000 1.33
@@ -393,18 +393,18 @@
</div>
<ul>
+ <li><p>Facebook's new Magic Photo app
+ <a
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/10/facebook_scans_camera_for_your_friends/">scans
your mobile phone's photo collections for known faces</a>,
+ and suggests you to share the picture you take according to who
+ is in the frame.</p>
+
+ <p>This spyware feature seems to require online access to some
+ known-faces database, which means the pictures are likely to be
+ sent across the wire to Facebook's servers and face-recognition
+ algorithms.</p>
- <li><p>Facebook's app has started <a
-
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/10/facebook_scans_camera_for_your_friends/">
- scanning photos people take</a> with their mobiles.</p>
-
- <p>The article says “camera”, but that word is misleading;
cameras
- do not have a Facebook app installed in them. This applies only
- to phones and tablets.</p>
-
- <p>I suspect the face recognition is done by sending the photos to
- a Facebook server. If so, the server could do other things with
- those photos. It could save them and send them to Big Brother.</p>
+ <p>If so, none of Facebook users' pictures are private
+ anymore, even if the user didn't "upload" them to the service.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Like most “music screaming” disservices, Spotify
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/11/26 16:13:20 $
+$Date: 2015/11/30 16:25:05 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html, hellekin, 2015/11/17
- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html, hellekin, 2015/11/25
- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html, hellekin, 2015/11/26
- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html, hellekin, 2015/11/26
- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html, hellekin, 2015/11/26
- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html, hellekin, 2015/11/26
- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html, hellekin, 2015/11/26
- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html, Pavel Kharitonov, 2015/11/26
- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html,
hellekin <=
- www/proprietary proprietary-surveillance.html, hellekin, 2015/11/30