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🚨 Google wants MORE biometric data🚨

Google may advertise its new selfie video sign-in feature as a shiny new option to log into your account, but this is just an excuse to collect more of your data 😡

Just when you think the Big Tech can't get more privacy-invading, it does! 🫣

Time to #DEGOOGLE here 👉 tuta.com/blog/degoogle-list.

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Bad news: Google demands folk's biometric data

Good news: we've deGoogled.
If somebody hasn't, they should start their deGoogle Journey NOW!

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This feature makes it way more likely someone else can recover my account than I can.

AI doesn't think I have a face. Almost all of them fail.

My theory is that this is actually all just training for the overwatch AI. Be much harder to train AI on the chaos of watching people mill about than on the flow channeled and logged activities of account recovery and "validated ID".

Make it better. Make it recognize my face and then it can track anyone's.

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There is absolutely no way that Google will somehow monetize this video by selling it directly or training AI or whatever. No way at all...

#sarcasm

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Anyone out there with a jerk of a twin or close-enough doppelganger is probably concerned someone else can now easily open their accounts.

I also wonder if they ever fixed that problem where AI had a hard time distinguishing people who weren't white from each other.

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uhm. Not to defend Google but wouldn't this (like ordinary biometrics) work via some sort of client-side hashing?
If they really just save those files or even identification data somewhere, they'd have shit opsec. And nobody in their right mind would want such files anywhere near their own system, for legal reasons alone.
I really don't like the company, but I'll wait for technical details before I judge (this time).
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Not to be outdone, Meta is pushing its own video selfies.

Why would anyone voluntarily do this?

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*shakes head at google's gall*

--> photo blurred - access denied!

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In diesem Zusammenhang: Adversarial Example von ki.nrw ansehen. Wie man die Bilderkennung austricksen kann. youtube.com/shorts/gxGGI5YV-4Q…
#FediLZ #informatikEdu