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Privacy@Lemmy.ml : Could websites and data brokers track you with your profile pictures? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I only just thought of this. I have the same cartoon-y profile pic from a foreign TV show on a bunch of my accounts, I wonder if its unique enough and worth tracking.

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[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

no i mean downscaling and quantising before taking the hash to be able to reliably get the same hash for images that have been compressed, downscaled, had individual pixels edited, etc

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Oh that's smart but I don't think they use it for tracking now. The most they can do is check the hash for known CSAM.