Sunday, April 12, 2015

Facebook Going too Far?

Recently this past week, Facebook has been challenged in court by an Illinois man who has a very interesting law suit.  We all have seen the facial recognition feature on Facebook and how it can practically pick out who is who, and this is thanks to Biometric Data.  The question now comes that if  Facebook should be allowed to have this data, or is it an invasion of our privacy?  This individual from Illinois plans to test this and is taking Facebook to court of the unauthorized use of his biometric data because he never received a notification was told that they would be storing and using this information.



I'm not totally 100% how this will go for Facebook. I think a lot of this court case will be decided on how good this individuals lawyer is, and how far into Facebook's privacy regulations that they want to dig into.  I can see both sides of the argument in this situation but I feel like Facebook should be okay with this court case.  When you sign into and register with a social media site, you are taking the risk of your information to be taken or stored on the internet.  I feel at most Facebook will have to send a message describing that the users information is stored and being used for facial recognition with pictures to all users and pay a small fee to this man, but I do not think this will change anything or force Facebook to not use this feature.  After this court case is settled I believe that we will see a very bold line in the agreement that we have when signing up for a Facebook account that states the use of biometric data being store by the company strictly to avoid something like this happening again.

source:
http://mashable.com/2015/04/07/facebook-facial-recognition-lawsuit/

2 comments:

  1. I think that we'll see more technology like this in the coming years. Everything is going to voice command and motion control so tech, like this and new ways it could possibly invade our privacy is coming. It'll be interesting to see how the new technology will pan out.

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  2. Honestly I think this case will depend on whether it was included in the terms and conditions. If the man agreed to the terms and conditions and biometric permissions were included I don't think he really has a good chance. However, a good lawyer and a great argument might change that.

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