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I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone (simonwillison.net)
submitted 6 days ago by Olap@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Not my title! I do think we are being listened to. And location tracked. And it's being passed on to advertisers. Is it apple though? Probably not is my take away from this article, but I don't trust plenty of others, and apple still does

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A random person recognized Luigi in just a couple days, and he was wearing a mask in all the video footage released.

Modern recognition systems can scan footage a lot faster than humans. Many modern systems don't just use facial recognition but other factors like general height, walking gait, stride length, etc. to make more accurate recognitions.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago

Wasn’t his face revealed in cab footage where he’d taken his mask off within like, a day?

I think there is also probably a difference of scope in what is leveraged when Kroger is trying to get your facial pattern while you’re in the store to track where you go and get more data to sell advertisers vs like, the lengths gone to by the state in order to catch someone who shot a rich person dead in the street.