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[–] 147 points 3 months ago (6 children)

The videos are never associated with a user's identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.

I actually believe them. It's gonna start out this way. But in a year or two, they'll quietly slip in a provision stating they will hold on to the images for a short time for security purposes, then they will say that they will associate your image with your identity to make it more secure, then Google's AI will know everything about everyone (and sell the info to the highest bidder)

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago

    This will be like the proof of age face scans. Yes, the VIDEO is deleted, but the unique biometric code describing your face sure as hell won't be deleted. Focusing on deleting the video has got to be a deliberate distraction

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    It should be considered a universal law of corporate behavior: any information that has theoretical value will eventually be sold.

    Even if current management has no intention of exploiting it, they’ll be replaced by the board, or the division and its data will be spun off and sold for its IP—that’s just corporate nature (i.e., the purpose of a system is what it does).

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    That’s just v1. At some point they’ll realize that bots can deepfake a human waving and they’re going to want to truly verify it’s you by verifying the position of moles on your body… Then they’ll have to save your data… to secure your account!

    Soon they’ll realize to get good mole data they’ll need you to show more skin, as some people don’t have much on their face and their clothing could be hiding those juicy datapoints.

    That’s when v2 hits. Flash google your titties to secure your account, don’t worry it’s super secure and we never share your titties with law enforcement agencies unless it’s required by law!

    You’ll be walking through your local library because tech has gone to far and you need to unplug but as you walk by the rows of shared computers it’ll all be old people flashing their titties at the screen to continue watching ads on YouTube.

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  • [–] 96 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Calling it: In the future we will learn that they have been using it to gather face recognition data and have been using it to track their users in the real world by partnering with the likes of Flock.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago

    Reasonable bet if they didn't already have root on devices in people's pockets, with cameras pointing at their faces for hours per day. Along with GPS, cell, WiFi and Bluetooth location services.

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    [–] 89 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I will not do this. Whatever services require this i will not use.

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  • [–] 71 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Google can verify I'm a human by not using Google.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I would love to not have YT in every corner of the internet though. I wonder how developers of Youtube forks will deal with this?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    You need another YouTube. Free for anyone to post, the same volume, the same storage. Nebula is elite and paid. You and I can’t post on it. The others I’ve seen contain a handful of conspiracy theorists and Linux people.

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    [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    The fuck it will

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    The only hand gesture I'm giving Google is:

    🖕

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  • [+] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)
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    [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    Do Google employees actually do anything other than sit around thinking of ways to make things worse? In the last few years we've had web environment integrity (thankfully that one seems to have been dropped), gutting the AOSP to the point where it's practically unusable on its own, Android developer verification, play integrity, QR code captchas and now this

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    It says in the docs:

    "## Accessibility

    For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives."

    So it seems you can just do a different task if you don't want to do the hand thing anyway.

    Edit: obligatory F google still of course.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Guess I'm not a human anymore

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    [–] 22 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Further reason to avoid google's shit like the fuckin plague.

    The videos are never associated with a user’s identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.

    My fat fucking ass do any of this. Google is just as data hungry as everyone else, they will absolutely save it, and feed it to their AI to enhance their ability to generate realistic people.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    The fuck it will

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I don't have a child, but if I a did have one, and they walked naked in front of the webcam, could I go after Google for CP?

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    Are webcams that ubiquitous nowadays? My monitors never had one, and I could never be arsed to buy an external one, but perhaps I'm the weird outlier here.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    Think I'll finish migrating away from google this weekend.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    "Rest assured, the video is TOTALLY deleted, bro... but we will take about 120 still screenshots per second as a backup."

    "Oh weird, if you look at these screenshots real fast it's almost like they move, haha, fun!!"

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    People without hands suddenly non human

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    Jokes on them. I run Linux on a 2017 MacBook Air and the camera doesn't work

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    [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    The fuck it will.

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    The fuck they will

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    What Webcam?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Hahahahahaha nope.

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Do they have any idea the sheer volume of penis helicopters they are going to record by doing this?

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Don’t have one.

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