The Right to be Forgotten / Geotagging

SEANoftheDEAD

Not sure if this is a CT... as I think it's a real world issue!

I would love to be able erase all traces on myself off the web from over the years. I've been online doing all sorts for over a decade, but it's only recently with all the social networking that I have become paranoid about what these companies know about me... I was recently away on a couples holiday. My friends GF, is Fb mad, taking snaps and tagging away... when I got home my family knew more about my trip than I did. This really annoyed me.

I also hate the term, "well if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear", that is a load of cock and balls if you ask me!

I hate this new world we entering. Personal information is too easily passed around. Geotagging IMO is such an invasion of privacy!

thecommander

Posting on forums doesn't really help if you're trying to delete yourself.

ArmaniJeanss

Theres a setting on Facebook to partly prevent that.
You obviously can't prevent the tagging, but you can force it to be approved before it appears on your updates.
So 'SeanoftheDead got tagged in XXXXs photo' won't appear on other peoples newsfeed unless you approve it (or unless they are friends with both you and XXX).

Its in settings/account settings/TimeLine&Tagging; the option 'review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline' should be set to ON.

thecommander

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Theres a setting on Facebook to partly prevent that.
You obviously can't prevent the tagging, but you can force it to be approved before it appears on your updates.
So 'SeanoftheDead got tagged in XXXXs photo' won't appear on other peoples newsfeed unless you approve it (or unless they are friends with both you and XXX).

Its in settings/account settings/TimeLine&Tagging; the option 'review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline' should be set to ON.

Facebook may do an update one day that removes those settings and exposes all your data. Best off not having a Facebook account if you're really that worried about it.

shanered

Its gonna be alot worse when google goggles.come out

Tzar Chasm

thecommander wrote: »

Facebook may do an update one day that removes those settings and exposes all your data. Best off not having a Facebook account if you're really that worried about it.

do people really think that your privacy settings are acknowledged by facebook when they are data mining or presenting your data to the nsa

thecommander

Tzar Chasm wrote: »

do people really think that your privacy settings are acknowledged by facebook when they are data mining or presenting your data to the nsa

Exactly.

Sonics2k

shanered wrote: »

Its gonna be alot worse when google goggles.come out

Google Goggles have been out for more than a year. Now if you mean Google Glass, Google have already released a code preventing them from using Face Recognition tech.

Perhaps you lot could actually try reading a bit before coming out with the ol conspiracies.

shanered

Sonics2k wrote: »

Perhaps you lot could actually try reading a bit before coming out with the ol conspiracies.

No need to be like that, i was only making a comment.

What makes you think just because google said it wont use face recognition, that it wont store all the information. Or even give agencies like the NSA the ability to hack and track people on these glasses, or allow governments to use the information collected to suit its agenda. The is the possibility of mis-use.

Tzar Chasm

google glass will be an interesting quandry once the technology becomes more mainstream.

whilst they say at the. moment that they wont allow face recognition, the system will be android based, so it will only be a matter of time until someone creates a face recognition app, FFS they said that they wouldn't allow Porn on google glass, how long do you think that will last:)

that's the thing about things like googli glass and its generic copies, once the geenie is out of the bottle there is no real possibility of regulating how people use it

Sonics2k

shanered wrote: »

No need to be like that, i was only making a comment.

What makes you think just because google said it wont use face recognition, that it wont store all the information. Or even give agencies like the NSA the ability to hack and track people on these glasses, or allow governments to use the information collected to suit its agenda. The is the possibility of mis-use.

Information is stored already, even the phone I'm typing on is to a point.

The information stored by Google in this case allows them to find my interests and show ads on small banners I barely notice, or show me websites that may interest me, ironically boards.ie is one of them.

However, that same tech is used to track down pedophiles and Google has been actively working to destroy and child porn sites and report them to the police.

In regard to facial recognition tech, it's of course possible to do, but it's also possible on a smartphone camera (or any digital lens) and the exact same claims were made a decade ago about them.

However, just because it is possible does not mean it will happen.

I also don't believe Google is the kind of company with any such interest and they have already openly said they only give information to authorities with a proper warrant as is the law.