If you are in a photo that has been uploaded to Flickr, IBM may have used your face to train facial recognition technology that could eventually be used to surveil you.
Nearly a million photos were scraped from Flickr to do so.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921
@torproject Gosh, I guess they didn't learn their lesson from helping the Nazis commit genocide.
I think I had one picture of myself on there before deleting almost everything. It was a shoulders-up back view so all you could see was my ocean of hair. On the minus side, I never had the heart to tell mr_xeno not to put pics of us on FB.
@torproject 唔只IBM啦,好多人Train AI都係餵佢食幾個主要Social Network嘅public photo啦,包括在下
@torproject they weren't scraped in the slightest, they were compiled while respecting each photo's license, and that makes it FAR worse, so let's focus on that please.
@torproject 10 years ago was a good time to stop taking photos of yourself