Facebook Moments app NOT COMING to a mobile device near EU soon

Re: Facebook: The new big Brother

Indeed. They even do at spectacular events like fireworks night. There they are actually at the event but watching it through a 5 inch screen.

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Re: Facebook: The new big Brother

My wife is paranoid about pictures of her being taken and whenever someone at a party, even a family event, she always explicitly states that any photo may not be posted on Facebook or the Internet in general.

Ditto - and I tend to be fairly direct and proactive in catching people taking pictures. Especially at events.

Re: Facebook: The new big Brother

> Protection laws, they only apply if a company asks a user directly for their details. If they obtain your details from your friends, no real rules exist

That is, in the EU, grossly incorrect.

The person whose details are being collected is the Data Subject, while the entity doing the collection is the Data Processor and the entity legally responsible for the data is the Data Controller. Each one of those parties' rights and obligations are fairly clearly laid out in Directive 95/46/EC, which the national law implementation should observe.

If anywhere in the directive is a distinction being made as to the source of the data, that substantially changes the obligations of the Data Processor or Data Controller, including the obligation to notify the Data Subject, please point it out.

Re: Never knew FB had facial recognition

You mean the way it says "this looks a person, would you like to tag them"? That's not the same as trying to detect WHICH person, it's just like Google StreetView blurring people's faces.

Re: Mmm, chocpot

The reason FB is not popular amongst Reg readers is because it's geared around people being interested in other peoples' carefully edited, airbrushed, primped, fantastical and hyped account of their otherwise mundane lives.

It's like a year-round version of the Christmas round-robin bragging letter.

Re: Mmm, chocpot

"The reason FB is not popular amongst Reg readers is because it's geared around people being interested in other peoples' lives, rather than in their computers."

Not at all. In fact, I rather like Facebook. It's a very useful site for keeping in touch with friends and family who don't live nearby, organising events, sharing holiday photos, participating in various groups and communities, and so on. The problem is that it's also useful for spamming endless streams of uninteresting and irrelevant bullshit, and many people don't seem to realise that that's not all there is. It's not that they're not interested in other people's lives, it's just that they don't care about getting updates on exactly what everyone is doing every 5 minutes.

This is why I criticised Moments, not Facebook as a whole, since it's focussed solely on automating that stream of crap. If a photo is interesting enough for you to want to share it with your friends, it's probably worth taking a few seconds to actually post it and tag it yourself. All Moments will do is increase the number of shit photos no-one cares about being posted, and no matter how good or bad you think Facebook is currently, that is not a useful addition.