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The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech (404 Media Article) (www.404media.co)

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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.

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[-] nix@merv.news 12 points 1 year ago

Apps like tiktok/instagram etc should have a built it face blur/censor that can automatically face track every face and you can select to unblur your face. They should have this on by default

this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023

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