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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT |
> One such company that chooses to opt-in its users
> for facial recognition is Facebook.
is the wording I read in the article. That says to me that FB
is opting-in its users. Exactly what is happening, as I understand
from reports elsewhere.
> While Sherman [FB's Manager of Privacy and Public Policy] fumbled
> over his own repetitive comments about Facebook's opt-in nature,
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> [Sherman said] We think [opt-in for tagging] is the appropriate choice
> because Facebook is an opt-in experience. People join Facebook
> because they want to share with each other."
Looks to me like the article was fairly accurately quoting FB's own
arrogant ignorance of the customary meaning of "opt-in".[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: mcinsand on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 04:20 PM EDT |
"Only a user can opt-in"
Thank you. You couldn't have said it better. Facebook's idea of 'opt-in' is
like when MS forced Win95 users to take an OS with the browser integrated, thus
also beginning the path to guaranteed insecurity.
Making reduced privacy the default should never be allowed. Granted, people
generally aren't on FB for privacy, but this is a big change.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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