2011/6/10 Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net>: > > Facebook does push the envelope. The facial recognition thing is meant to > make it easy to tag photos. It's not a plot to spy on members. But it's > tweaked some the wrong way. Fortunately, one can easily opt out of it. No > big deal for those who don't suffer from paranoia.
Not a matter of paranoia, Paul. Just a matter of who respects what. Facebook make their money profiling people and selling this information to marketers and using it to better target ads. The tags allow them to learn more about people. They can be useful, there is no doubt about that. However, I also consider them a violation of my privacy. I don't have beef with facebook - if people want to use it, fine. I gave it a second chance myself. BUT- if I have no control over whether or not facebook maintain in their database an image tag with my name and for my face, then I have a problem with that. If they were to offer a privacy setting that said "identify my face and name and suppress use of it by others" I would consider that a great move and it would bring facebook a little farther up on my scale where right now it resides below both the "decent" and the "yes I would pay for that" threshold. Hope this clears it up Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
