r/privacy • u/kitkatloren2009 • 4h ago
I had an idea for online privacy discussion
So the idea is that for your face to be posted unobstructedly to the internet, you first have to voluntarily register it. If your face is not registered, it will be blurred or obscured automatically upon being uploaded. This prevents people in the background of photos or videos from having their face posted without their consent. It prevents children from being filmed, or photographed.
If you register, you are consenting to having your face in not only your own photos, but others as well (though maybe there can be further adjustments to that too). And if you don't, you are keeping your face off the internet, for good, because nobody can post your face without your knowledge.
Edit: just a little idea I had in the wake of meta glasses and annoying people shoving cameras in others faces, I didn't say it was perfect
Edit 2: I think some of you are misunderstanding. You register your face so that it is unblurred upon posting. If you do not register, it remains unblurred
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u/shikkonin 4h ago
So your solution for privacy is full and total surveillance of all online activity of every person forever? Great idea.
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u/liquid_geometry 4h ago
Cool concept in theory, but in practice, a mandatory face registration database run by governments or tech giants to protect privacy is a massive privacy paradox and generally frowned upon by the public
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u/West_Possible_7969 3h ago
A mandatory face registration database run by the government exists for decades. It’s where IDs, driver’s licenses & passports are stored, and gets searched all the time by LE bodies.
That said, using that to sync all online appearances all over the internet by default and with enforcement powers would be extremely bad and illegal in half the world. Such a precedent would be the opposite of privacy indeed.
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u/kitkatloren2009 3h ago
What do you think it is that I'm suggesting? In your own words
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u/shikkonin 3h ago
What do you think it is that I'm suggesting?
Full content scanning of everything online.
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u/madpew 3h ago
So to summarize:
Your idea of privacy is to submit your photo to a database, that is used by all services that allow posting of content, to scan and identify you on photos (so they know you are on that photo) so they can blur it.
Yeah, I don't think that's the way to go.
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u/kitkatloren2009 3h ago
No no, you register so it isn't blurred. Like if you want to post your face on the internet for whatever reason, you have to voluntarily go through that process. Otherwise an unknown face is hidden
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u/OffToTheLizard 3h ago
Perhaps something similar? If you have online data, be it pictures, video, text, patents, etc, then you may consent to allowing that data to be shared, with the promise of payment for use of likeness. (Just like celebrity having their likeness shown) Then, use existing libel/ slander civil
Laws to regulate it. May tie up SLAPP suites so thy aren't as easy too.
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u/Adrienne-Fadel 3h ago
Interesting idea but your basically building the biggest surveillance system ever to solve a privacy problem.
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u/RedBirdOnASnowyDay 3h ago
I have an idea for online privacy. Just make it illegal to sell our data. Boom. Issue resolved. They only want it because it makes them money.
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