The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech
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A viral account is using off-the-shelf facial recognition tech to dox random people on the internet for the amusement of millions of viewers. One victim said they “felt a bit violated really.”

A viral TikTok account is doxing ordinary and otherwise anonymous people on the internet using off-the-shelf facial recognition technology, creating content and growing a following by taking advantage of a fundamental new truth: privacy is now essentially dead in public spaces.

  • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    201·
    1 year ago

    Maybe stuff like this starts getting those “I’ve got nothing to hide” people to think a little more about privacy.

    • Synnr@sopuli.xyz
      211·
      1 year ago

      Group of accounts set up webcams outside of busy public restrooms. Records people’s faces as they exit the bathroom and how long they were in there. Auto-ID’s and sends email asking as part of a public poll if they agree with the statement “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”

      N: auto erase image and associated data

      Y: auto publish bathroom exiting face and time spent in restroom to tiktok.

      Let’s really get the privacy conversation started.

      We can call it Operation Feardrop