"Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine."
  • TerdFerguson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 day ago

    One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database

    … because of course we aren’t. We already have one and it’s AMAZING.

    • badgermurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      17 hours ago

      …the site is called “FaceBook”, though? And it has a database of, among other things, faces. I’m not sure who these guys think they are kidding.

      • TerdFerguson@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        No no no, it’s not a central database at all. It’s distributed globally across many geographic locales, nothing central about it. Lots of redundancies too, it’s available everywhere all of the time. :S

      • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        21 hours ago

        Face tagging has been a feature since the early days. Facebook by itself is a central database of face data, you just need to plug into it. I don’t know how anyone could think otherwise, especially after CA