- cross-posted to:
- fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
- privacy@europe.pub
- cross-posted to:
- fuck_bigtech@europe.pub
- privacy@europe.pub
Just a little bit more privacy invasion. C’mon, juuuust a little… 'till you no longer notice.
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Could they not?
If companies don’t push the envelope, nobody will mark it return to sender.
So…what’ll probably happen:
- Samsung does this. It is universally despised.
- A year will go by, and Google will do this. It will be universally despised.
- A year will go by, and Apple will do this. It will be loved by Apple users and despised by everyone else.
- A year will go by and it’s a part of every Android phone on the market. Apple users will accuse Android of “stealing” the feature. Everyone else will despise it.
This is the way.
Fascinating stuff.
I do think there will eventually be pushback against the current oligarch model of technology, but it is likely I will be much older when it happens.
Just the nature of history. We are pretty early in the information age.
The Samsung robot army will make an uprising really difficult
Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.
And how long before they decide to make a default instead of opt-in?
opt-in:
Can we take all your stuff?
- Yes daddy
- Remind me tomorrow
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Glance says it will retain the biometric data used to create your digital avatar for 12 months from your last interaction with the service or until you manually delete your account. The company claims that your images won’t be used for any other purpose or shared with third parties without your consent.
Thousands of pictures of regular people’s faces, not just professional models, is valuable data. They’re definitely selling that shit or using it for their own AI training.
OK, so the people making these claims are filing a GDPR complaint, right?
Being paranoid online is not useful at all. This isn’t great as it is:
We’ve looked over Glance’s AI privacy policy, and nothing stands out as unusual for the tech industry (which still isn’t good). By using the service, you agree to some tracking, including your general location, and some of that data will be shared with partners. However, this all feels a bit more creepy when a service is churning out AI images of you.
…but if you think on top of everything else they are lying about selling your personally identifiable info that is a GDPR violation (and a violation of privacy laws in multiple other territories) and you should immediately file a complaint. Because it is illegal. And yes, it will get investigated and a fine will be set. GDPR violations are constantly being flagged and fined.
Can a non-EU citizen file? You may have mistaken me for someone with sane governance.
I mean, I don’t know which US you are from or what privacy rules run there (and I’m curious to know if you do), but I’m sure one of the 450 million people protected by GDPR can give you a hand submitting a form if you’re patient about asking individually to all of them. And you still get a bunch of people in a bunch of other countries with similar legislation to try after.
One may say you’re kinda missing the point there.
Do you have the portrait right? or some other kind of right that is being harmed by this feature? if so yes you can file a complaint and/or sue them.
Just want to say that Call of duty Black Ops II was pretty fucking accurate up to this point.
- We have drone strikes.
- Personalised face ads.
- worldwide conflicts
- a fight for rare earth minerals
But I guess Treyarch was too optimistic about having a women as a POTUS
Don’t forget warfare using quadcopter drones, albeit without the machine gun.
I’ve seen guns, bigger guns, and also flamethrower drones.
who the fuck is going to buy anything that’s endorsed by my ugly mug?
So, how much will they pay me to opt in?
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That’s gonna be a yikes from me dawg
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Is this just so they can wait a few months and say, “Not enough people were discovering this Great Feature, so we’re enabling it by default”?
I’ve already been getting the itch to leave Samsung and try something different. I’m keeping my eye on the upcoming Nothing Phone 3, if it’s genuinely a “flagship” for £800 I might jump ship.
Pixel is a decent alternative, and de-googled pixel is even better yet.
The main issue with the Pixel is that there is still going money to Google
Not if you buy second hand, though!
That’s true!
I know a bunch of folks who will opt in because their thought process regarding technology is pretty much “new = good.”
Why would anyone opt in 😭
Because the checkbox will be checked by default, and most people just speedrun through the setup as if it was a competition
I tried a Samsung phone a year or two ago. It lasted less than a day before I was so infuriated that I vowed never to use Samsung again. It is SO invasive and pushes so many ads and bloatware.
Samsung bricked by first Android because of an Android update, my friends who bought the same phone two weeks later had no issues …
these kind of creepy stuff make me more glad I’m on iPhone.
Oh sweet summer child
Apple is also joining the ‘AI’ game. They have been bragging about all their ‘AI’ garbage in their new phones. That is specifically why I just got rid of my iPhone. I’m happy with GrapheneOS where they don’t want my info, and have shown no signs of wanting to shove ‘AI’ into any of my things.
Do I want my face in ads? No. Not at all.
Would I want this same tech used to character swap myself into movies, or just swap actors in whatever? …okay yeah that might be kinda fun novelty.
This is what makes me excited for Linux phones to finally become viable. Every major phone manufacturer is making their UX worse and expanding their hidden spyware for the sake of profits.
Graphene os is great but you can only install it on a Pixel. But they give extended support for older devices which is nice. HOWEVER, people are making Linux builds for even older devices, including the iphone 6. Getting a new phone after 7 years might not be necessary in the future.
It’s hard, without UEFI for arm
I can’t wait to get a Linux phone.
7 years? Most folks here get one every 2
And that’s their choice to. But some people are sick of planned obsolescence and wish to use their phones for as long as the hardware doesn’t give.
It used to be that phone technology improved relatively quickly, and a 2 year old phone was significantly worse than the latest and greatest. Now, not so much. I use a Pixel 6 Pro running Graphene OS, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on the latest tech. The camera is great, certainly more than good enough for me, and the phone is responsive and does everything I need it to do, and it’s 3+ generations old. I see no need to spend $1000+ on a new phone.
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Do Orbic devices* run anything aside from stock android?
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Yet more discrimination against faceless people
I weep for my newborn, whose reality will be marred by so much fakeness
Buddy had the nightmarish idea a while back with all the new generative ai stuff for video chat services injecting ads using the faces/voices of the participants in lieu of payment. Just, regularly-schedule ad breaks in your call where “your friend” suddenly starts talking about how excited they are about Raid: Shadow Legends
Jesus. Delet this.
Too late, Black Mirror already has an episode about this exact idea (starring Rashida Jones).
Black Mirror with Rashida Jones
Oh wild, good call
Lol who downvoted you but not me?
Lol, I want to believe it was someone who wanted to slow the spread of this concept in the world, lashing out against it the only way they could.
That said I’ve def bookmarked that episode for watching. I lost track of Black MIrror, it’s a bit tough in that it’s so grim that each episode doesn’t really leave you wanting to watch the next one in my experience. But it’s had some bangers.
That one is particularly rage inducing if it’s the one I’m thinking of (I think ep 1 of the new season?).
Some of the others in the new season aren’t so depressing or rage inducing, though.
After having watched it (it was good, watched it with the buddy who had the idea and without telling him why we were watching it, he had a laugh the first time it happened), if you found it a real struggle, definitely don’t read this article about a real company that made a brain implant for epileptics and went under of which the episode heavily reminded me.
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