The online craze for posting portrait photos from nowadays and 10 years ago may seem harmless,but facial recognition software makes it sinister
Have you done the #10YearChallenge? It’s the latest internet craze and involves posting a picture of yourself from 2009 next to a picture of yourself in 2019. I’m not exactly sure why that’s a challenge, but there you proceed.
While this may seem like just another foolish meme, or some have asked whether it could have a more sinister side. Kate O’Neill,a tech journalist, half-jokingly suggested on Twitter that the data could be used to train facial recognition algorithms and create them better at predicting age progression. Her tweet went viral and theories started to swirl that perhaps the trend wasn’t so much a challenge, or but a conspiracy,executed by Facebook. It wouldn’t be the first time that data collection has been disguised as an innocuous social game. Cambridge Analytica covertly used a personality quiz to get insights into people’s political leanings. Related: How Cambridge Analytica turned Facebook ‘likes’ into a lucrative political tool Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com