Looking at the privacy, this was unimaginable 5-10 years ago. But Facebook's strategy of little steps is working. I'm quite sure people will accept this and most comments won't go beyond how amazing this is, creepy but still awesome and similar blabla.
> then it hit me that this picture is likely to end up on Flickr, Facebook or some other online service. And even if it’s not visible where the picture was taken, it is probably geo-tagged, and it definitely has a time stamp. Which means that there is now proof of my whereabouts yesterday, available on the internet.
One solution is to spam photos of yourself with false timestamps and geodata.
This is exactly why I don't tag photos of myself and remove tags when a friend does it. I have no idea why people are zealous about tagging people in photos, if it's a friend you already know the name, if it isn't then do you need to know?
It's not to help me identify who's in a picture, but rather to make it simpler to find pictures of a person.
Example: I want to photoshop a picture of my friend onto a dog; I could either load all pictures with him tagged in it, or laboriously go through all of my pictures from a given weekend, hoping that the picture I'm looking for is there.
Part of me thinks it's indeed very cool, but part of me can't help but wonder when I'll walk into a store at the mall and hear "Welcome back, Artmageddon!" as some unseen Kinect-style camera looks up my face in some database shared by a whole network of advertisers.
No. People said the same about Google and Facebook collection phone-numbers for security purposes, but the truth is, extra authentication methods like these are crucial to recovering accounts in the event of attacks. In any case, security teams at major companies are usually at-a-distance from product teams.
In addition, companies like Facebook and Google have a distinct incentive to keep their product spam-free. This means that, so far as spam and security are concerned, the user's interests are completely aligned with the company.
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One solution is to spam photos of yourself with false timestamps and geodata.
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Example: I want to photoshop a picture of my friend onto a dog; I could either load all pictures with him tagged in it, or laboriously go through all of my pictures from a given weekend, hoping that the picture I'm looking for is there.
Result: http://i.imgur.com/C6mrd.jpg
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In addition, companies like Facebook and Google have a distinct incentive to keep their product spam-free. This means that, so far as spam and security are concerned, the user's interests are completely aligned with the company.
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