andrewb
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I am looking for concrete examples. Your pic does not help someone take money from your checking account. Your account number and routing number do. Which was already given to PayPal.
Anyone who has the interest and a picture of you (especially a high-res scan of your face, like the ones they automatically take of you at airports now, even though you can decline them) has the ability to identify and track you from video footage anywhere. And that information can be purchased from data brokers. And there are people who are interested in buying it, to track you and your habits in the real world.
It isn't about stealing money from your bank account. It's about you participating in a surveillance economy without knowing or controlling it.
There are companies that pay Uber drivers to carry cameras that scan all license plates those drivers pass, and harvest the plate info, which gets sold to anyone who wants to buy it, including insurance companies and law enforcement, for the purposes of tracking where people drive.
People are now doing the same with faces. And the more data you give away about your face, the more you enable that ecosystem. Every time you enter a big box store and there's a camera? Every time you go through a self-checkout and there's a camera? Every time you board a plane? Those cameras are learning to recognize you by your face alone, so no other information is needed. So giving away your face information tied to other information helps those systems make those connections, and enables that information to be bought and sold without your knowledge.
You may not care. Many people do.



