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Options for when selfies are required? (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by makeitwonderful@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I see more and more apps and services requiring a selfie to proceed.

What are our privacy minded people doing when they want to use a service but not provide the selfie?

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Many online services derive value from the critical mass of users they home. This plus financial apps would include virtually all instances where facial images are required for security purposes. Self-hosting cannot solve this problem for you, you are effectively saying you will refrain from using these social and financial services at all.