La página de reconocimiento facial #PimEyes ha estado reforzando su base de datos con imágenes de difuntos que no pueden dar consentimiento.

Si no tienes nada que esconder no te importará que profanen tu cadáver... 🙄

Lo cuenta @lydmorrish en @WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/a-face-recognition-site-crawled-the-web-for-dead-peoples-photos/

A Face Recognition Site Crawled the Web for Dead People’s Photos

PimEyes appears to have scraped a major ancestry website for pics, without permission. Experts fear the images could be used to identify living relatives.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-face-recognition-site-crawled-the-web-for-dead-peoples-photos/
#Privacy #Algorithms #Tech #FaceRecognition #PimEyes

I fed my #profile to #ChatGPT and I think it has me pegged.

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I like how it slipped in the #nudes hashtag at the end. Nice SEO shenanigans there #ChatGPT.

Interesting. #PimEyes, #TinEye, and Google Image search all fail to find other pictures of me when prompted with one of the ones that #MidJourney colored over. Even though there's not a huge difference between the altered ones and the originals I used as prompts. Neat.

I used to run a #data #privacy workshop, and to demonstrate the impact of poor practices (both of companies and individuals) I'd pick the first (non-minor) girl that popped up when searching #Twitter for #selfie or #nofilter, then find out everything interesting that I could over the course of the following 10 minutes.

After the timer went off, I'd usually say something along the lines of,
"Now that we know [list of info] about [name], let's plan our first get-together! Should we pick them up from [work/school] or just drop by their place?"

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Update: dang this post is getting too long, so I'm going to cut a bunch and just jump to the links and a couple tips.

If you're interested in this stuff (and you don't smell like a creep), feel free to ask me anything—I'm always happy to help if I can.

Now back to the post.
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Here are some lovely people-finder sites you don't want to be on:

https://beebom.com/best-people-search-engines/

People sites like the ones in the above link are usually a pain in the butt to get yourself removed from. They'll often ask you for all your info before allowing you to remove any of it—some require you to upload a picture of your ID (fuck that).

A reasonable counter-measure against these sites is disinformation. If you show up on them, take a minute to "update their records" if you can. If you have writer's block, use a site like https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ to make shit up.

List of face-search sites you don't want to be on:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-fascinating-search-engines-search-faces/

If you find yourself on a site like #PimEyes, #TinEye, #FaceCheck, etc, ask to be removed. Also, don't use any image of yourself that isn't already public knowledge in order to see if you're on the site—you're just giving them a new reference point.

The same ideas help as counter-measures for people search sites too: disinformation and distortion.

It's also worth checking out https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?hl=en if you need to make things like #revengeporn, #doxxed records, and other sensitive information harder for people to stumble across.

In closing, I'll leave you with a quote:

"Of the [346 victim services] programs that responded, 97% indicated that victims who seek their services are being harassed, monitored, and threatened by offenders misusing technology. The majority of survey respondents were domestic violence and sexual assault programs (88%)."
—A Glimpse From the Field: How Abusers Are Misusing Technology

In das Verfahren rund um die Gesichtersuchmaschine #PimEyes kommt Schwung: Die Datenschutzbehörde aus Baden-Württemberg (sic) hat jetzt ein Bußgeldverfahren gegen PimEyes eingeleitet. https://netzpolitik.org/2022/bussgeldverfahren-aus-dem-laendle-pimeyes-droht-eine-millionenstrafe/

Im Interview mit @sebmeineck und mir war der neue Chef von PimEyes noch sehr zuversichtlich, dass sein Unternehmen ganz im Einklang mit der DSGVO ist: "Die Daten sind im Internet. Unsere Suchmaschine informiert Menschen schlicht über ihre Online-Präsenz." Mal sehen. https://netzpolitik.org/2022/pimeyes-ceo-der-mensch-ist-der-stalker-nicht-die-suchmaschine/