Jokes on them. I run Linux on a 2017 MacBook Air and the camera doesn’t work
Calling it: In the future we will learn that they have been using it to gather face recognition data and have been using it to track their users in the real world by partnering with the likes of Flock.
The video gets deleted, they say. But they don’t say what happens to the data derived from that video. Training models and such.
I’ll delete your video for sure! Lemme just make a copy of it, first!
Reasonable bet if they didn’t already have root on devices in people’s pockets, with cameras pointing at their faces for hours per day. Along with GPS, cell, WiFi and Bluetooth location services.
we will learn that they have been using it to gather face recognition data
They already have all that with the trillions and trillions of photos people willingly backed up with Google photos.
My desktop doesn’t have a webcam hum, oh wellz
that’s ok it’s optional, the op is baiting you guys like you’re moronic enough to fall for it
oh wait you guys are gg
Whether or not it’s optional it’s still pretty dystopian. And I think we’ve seen the path before where something optional but “more secure” becomes mandatory and everything else gets shut off.
hand gestures on webcam are already used to verify id, this is nothing new
maybe to lemmy who don’t have jobs
I only use Lemmy if I’m on the clock. Im probably one of the few who’s comments are high enough quality to justify paying for them. Granted, he doesn’t know he is paying for it but my boss might join Lemmy one day and get to see the fruits of my labor/his money.
Are you okay?
People without hands suddenly non human
Do you guys not have stumps?
Not everyone
The only hand gesture I’m giving Google is:
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I feel like I see dire warnings like this every day, and then it never happens
I believe it now. Because Google is an ad company and ai threatens their revenue model.
Google can verify I’m a human by not using Google.
I would love to not have YT in every corner of the internet though. I wonder how developers of Youtube forks will deal with this?
You need another YouTube. Free for anyone to post, the same volume, the same storage. Nebula is elite and paid. You and I can’t post on it. The others I’ve seen contain a handful of conspiracy theorists and Linux people.
Conspiracy theorists and Linux people? You sonofabitch I’m in
Yeah, but there only a handful of each.
The amount of storage and bandwidth Youtube needs is something no competitor could ever hope to match.
The videos are never associated with a user’s identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.
I actually believe them. It’s gonna start out this way. But in a year or two, they’ll quietly slip in a provision stating they will hold on to the images for a short time for security purposes, then they will say that they will associate your image with your identity to make it more secure, then Google’s AI will know everything about everyone (and sell the info to the highest bidder)
I believe them as well from a very literal perspective. The video will be deleted but the metadata that is created from the video will not.
100% this. The fingerprint is what they use for reidentification.
I’ve spoken to a number of companies in this space while searching for one that uses a ZKP and a user-held VC of the fingerprint vs the server storing it (for use with a Linux Foundation labs project). I ended up rolling my own using FOSS face models.
That’s just v1. At some point they’ll realize that bots can deepfake a human waving and they’re going to want to truly verify it’s you by verifying the position of moles on your body… Then they’ll have to save your data… to secure your account!
Soon they’ll realize to get good mole data they’ll need you to show more skin, as some people don’t have much on their face and their clothing could be hiding those juicy datapoints.
That’s when v2 hits. Flash google your titties to secure your account, don’t worry it’s super secure and we never share your titties with law enforcement agencies unless it’s required by law!
You’ll be walking through your local library because tech has gone to far and you need to unplug but as you walk by the rows of shared computers it’ll all be old people flashing their titties at the screen to continue watching ads on YouTube.
This will be like the proof of age face scans. Yes, the VIDEO is deleted, but the unique biometric code describing your face sure as hell won’t be deleted. Focusing on deleting the video has got to be a deliberate distraction
It should be considered a universal law of corporate behavior: if your information has any theoretical value, it will eventually be sold.
Even if current management has no intention of exploiting it, they’ll be replaced by the board, or the division and its data will be spun off and sold for its IP.
Don’t be evil
I’ll wave my ding dong
Your Tralala?
Whenever I need to send a selfie picture for whatever fucked up reason, I always give them a photo of my middle finger
Fuck these websites, fuck you Google
Are webcams that ubiquitous nowadays? My monitors never had one, and I could never be arsed to buy an external one, but perhaps I’m the weird outlier here.
You’re an outlier simply by being a desktop computer user instead of a laptop, phone, or tablet user.
the world would be a lot better if people went back to sitting at desks to use the computer/internet.
The fuck it will
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