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1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2017 21:54:25 EDT Mike Gerwitz
   Pornhub is using facial recognition (and other methods) to index people in videos:
   
   https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/30018
   
   The article brings up important points. Porn actors often have different identities. What about amateur/revenge porn? This is a much more intimate example of the privacy threats that already exist. People seem to care a lot more when it affects them on such an intimate level, even though this is already being done in non-pornographic settings.
   
   I've been thinking for well over a decade about people who place themselves in porn videos---be it professionally, or just for fun---and how their lives will one day change when everything they have ever posted online, even if it was a lifetime ago, is indexed and searchable. Privacy can't be retro-active---technology is advancing at too great of a pace. By the time you know to be concerned, you've already lost. And there's nothing you can do about that.
   1. stragu (stragu@mastodon.indie.host)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2017 22:53:58 EDT stragu

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      @mikegerwitz good points. Do you know about #slowtech?