Posted by pier25 6 days ago
The company that is destroying children's mental health with phone addiction is developing VR glasses.
I guess nobody cares
Some people do but other people don't elect them.
So, the other people don't care.
I bet "agree to" is "we clicked the box for you anyway"
It's surprising(not) how that class of error always seems to fall on the side of Facebook grabbing more data without consent, and never on the side of accidentally increasing user privacy.
[0] https://www.theverge.com/news/694246/google-android-pixel-wa...
I’m sure if you log the Facebook app’s network traffic on your phone and show that it uploads photos without you clicking on the agree button, they’ll happily publish an article about your findings.
Nah, that's the company's reputation that appends malice in your mind to an innocent headline
Nothing on that screen says they’re using your photos for training. I’m sure it’s in the linked terms, but Facebook knows those won’t be read.
This isn’t buried. The user has to see the screen and click accept for their photos to be uploaded.
Compared to the usual buried disclaimers and vague references to “improving services,” consenting to 1000 things when you sign up for an account, this is pretty transparent. If someone is concerned, they at least have a clear opportunity to decline before anything gets uploaded.
It’s just surprising to me that people look at this example of Facebook going out of their way to not do the bad thing and respond with a bunch of comments about how they doing the bad thing.
I didn’t make that assertion. I think most people don’t care if their photos are used to train an AI model as long as Facebook doesn’t post the photos publicly. Fundamentally, I care if people see my photos, and don’t care if computers see them. But I’m aware some people dislike AI and/or have strong beliefs about how data should be used and disagree. It makes sense to give those people an opportunity to say no, so it seems like a good thing that the feature is opt-in rather than an opt-out buried in a menu.
Here’s the thing. Even if we grant your idea that maybe this is more understandable, why would that be reasonable? Facebook employs a lot of very smart people and has enormous resources. I’m confident they could come up with wording that would make this very clear to everyone. I mean, “we will use your photos to build our next generation AI systems” is a lot clearer than what they have here, and I just came up with that on the spot. That they haven’t done so is a deliberate choice.
Maybe this will finally convince people to throw out their smartphones.