Re: Facial Recognition Can Help to Come Out from Bitcoin Social Media Scams

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 02:08:02 PM

Quote from: Janation on Today at 09:54:07 AM

We wanted more security in order to keep Bitcoin safe from hacks, scam, and also fraud but the more we find solutions, the more we are drawn out from being a decentralized community.

I've never once been a victim of a scam, hack, or fraud. Why? Because I don't click on random links or download random files, don't send out my KYC documents and personal information left, right, and center, don't believe in shitcoins/ICOs/doublers/Ponzis/HYIPs/etc. which promise ridiculous returns, and so on. This facial recognition nonsense is a completely over-engineered solution to what is a very simple problem to solve - have an ounce of common sense.

This is a quote about common sense that I have always liked.

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1377494

The truth is people do not really want to use their common sense, I really think that deep down they know that when they see all of those offers to multiply their money in an easy way they know that is not possible, but at the same time they want to believe it is possible and they decide it is worth a shot, at the end obviously they find out that their first impression was right but at that time there is nothing really to do except to accept the losses.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 02:08:02 PM

Quote from: lumeire on Today at 12:24:12 PM

Now a days, there have been an option to change privacy settings on most of the social media platforms but this wasn't present before and also the custom privacy settings are set to all data sharing by default unless you edit these settings. So most of the companies that brought the data from social media companies would already be having everyone's face data.

You are kidding yourself if you think changing your Facebook privacy settings makes any difference whatsoever to your online privacy. It might stop other random Facebook users looking at your photos or your posts, but it definitely doesn't stop Facebook including those data in their profile of you, analyzing it, sharing it, and selling it. Anything you upload to Facebook, even with the most stringent privacy settings, can and will be widely shared with an unknown number of third parties.

This is something a little bit more difficult for people to understand, I have said that to my friends many times and I always get the same response, "I got nothing to hide", and that exasperates me, it seems that people little by little are being conditioned by Facebook and other social media networks to not care about their privacy at all and somehow make people like me the weird ones just because I do not post every single aspect of my life in a social network, and quite honestly I do not see a way to reverse this tendency.