Facebook Asks Users To Give Permission To Map Their Faces

As if the intelligence agencies hadn’t already been doing it:

Facebook has implemented facial recognition on its platform, and all you have to do is sign over your face. For the low, low cost of free — insofar as “free” constitutes permission to access, store, and use your face — Facebook will add another layer of convenience to the largest data harvesting experiment in history. With the new facial recognition features, the lumbering social media network will alert you to uploaded photos in which you are featured — so long as you are in a group permitted to see them by the uploader. It will also work to prevent catfishing and revenge porn by alerting you when your face is in someone else’s profile picture. Finally, the features will allow visually impaired users to identify who is pictured with them.

In a Facebook “newsroom” post entitled “Hard Questions: Should I Be Afraid of Face Recognition Technology,” Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Rob Sherman compares the new tech to Kodak cameras in 1888. He assures us that Facebook will not use the features to give strangers (other than Facebook, of course) our identities, and explains the “all or nothing” approach to the feature which will, rather than allowing you to specify how your information is used, merely decide whether to turn it on or off. Thinly disguised as ease-of-use, the “on/off switch” mandates that to enjoy any of the benefits, you must accept all of the network’s terms.

My suspicion, knowing what I now know, is that a place like Harvard is probably spook central. What you have there is a bunch of late teens who have all the naiveté in the world, but who you know will eventually grow up to be important somewhere in the world. It is likely a prime period of vulnerability for the next generation of leaders.

I would assume US intelligence permeates the entire space, mapping out each individual student behind the scenes, and getting to know the puppets they may one day decide to install as the citizenry-approved public-faces of the Deep State machine. Some foreign students may themselves be foreign spooks, specially trained to do their own reconnaissance on the up and coming leaders of America and inserted by their governments, just as they are targets of US counter-intel who permeate the space and are beginning to build files on them. If someone like me was running things for each player, that is exactly how intel would be deployed on all sides, and I am probably not one tenth as aggressive or intrusive as the professionals in the field actually are.

So the Ivy League is like a great big cocktail mixer, where everybody who will be running things in the future gets to know everybody, except most of the students probably aren’t told this is what is happening, so everybody else is just getting to know them, probably in ways they would not believe if you told them.

I even now think back to one of the Bush daughters “scandalously” attending a “naked party” where students showed up and surrendered their clothes at the front door. The article implied it was a common event at elite universities, and everyone was assiduous about not taking pictures or invading anybody’s privacy. I thought at the time it was a goof, but now with hindsight, you wonder just how many hidden cameras were set up around the room beforehand, what the backstories on the the kids setting it up were, and what parents may have been pressured to do a little thing here or there to keep their child’s photos off the internet.

It does not surprise me that one of the premier intelligence gathering tools online today would have emerged from that cauldron. I also wouldn’t be surprised if when the Winklevoss twins were planning a social media website, the permeating forces decided a couple of 6 foot tall, 210lb aggressive Olympic athletes who came from money and influence would likely not be as controllable as a short skinny aspie with limited social skills and nobody of any import to back him up.

However it happened, never think that site is now anything but a tentacle of the machine, and every feature you avail yourself of will be a potential vulnerability one day soon.

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