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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Omoggle - website where users give biometric date in "face-comparison" matches while system continously scans it for rating (omoggle.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by xelar@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It works like omegle, but users stay silent and strive to go for the highest rating of their face.

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[–] yellerbadger@piefed.social 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The early 2000s internet where people knew better than to give up their privacy for useless internet points feels so long ago. Someone should make bets on prediction markets how long before we find out Zuck/Thiel/etc buy that data or they get breached and it ends up on the dark web.

[–] ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

Or it’s for ICE. Pokémon Go was notoriously a CIA backed world-scanning initiative disguised as a game.