Quick Thought – FaceApp as Russian Scare

Quick Thought – FaceApp as Russian Scare

The recent flap about the FaceApp “old age” filter is somewhat instructive. As soon as it started going viral, there were scary media reports about how the company was stealing all of your photos, and storing them, and possibly “owning your face”. Really? Here the thing about every one of the articles that I saw….

Linked: LinkedIn’s Rolling Out Photo-Tagging, New Photo Stickers
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Linked: LinkedIn’s Rolling Out Photo-Tagging, New Photo Stickers

I can already hear the cries of “this is not Facebook, keep it professional!”. I know, I know, but you have to realize that while LinkedIn may have started as a social media site created around work, and our professional lives, they face the same challenge that every other social media site does, and Social…

On the Internet Who Knows What Is Real?
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On the Internet Who Knows What Is Real?

Some deep thoughts based on listening to an episode of On the Media from January titled “Everything is Fake”.  The first couple of segments aren’t a big surprise. Politicians who go looking for border photo ops in Texas will visit the things that back up their story about the border, and they’ll say things about…

How I Consume and Curate: Step Two and Three – Tagging and Sharing
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How I Consume and Curate: Step Two and Three – Tagging and Sharing

From time to time, I am asked how I can keep up with numerous blog topics, twitter accounts, and Facebook pages while not making myself crazy. Well OK, maybe I am actually crazy, that is up for debate. However, what isn’t up for debate is that it takes a lot of content to keep all…

Linked – Are Location-Tagged Photos Really a Privacy Concern?
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Linked – Are Location-Tagged Photos Really a Privacy Concern?

In case you didn’t already know: “When you take a photo with your smartphone (or a modern digital camera), it logs the photo’s GPS coordinates and embeds it in the image metadata, or EXIF. This is how your phone is able to show a map view of your photo library.” Now the article goes into…

Linked – Facebook announces new facial recognition features.
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Linked – Facebook announces new facial recognition features.

This may fall under the category of something that maybe Facebook would have been better not bragging about: As many technology journalists suggested, the most compelling element of the announcement may be that the company will now help you find pictures of yourself, whether or not you’re tagged in them. Drawing on its existing “template”…