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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 &ldquo;camera&rdquo;, 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 &ldquo;music screaming&rdquo; 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>



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