Google’s new CAPTCHA asks users to wave hand at camera, users fear privacy trade-off
cybernews.com
Google's new hand-gesture verification system uses camera-based movements to distinguish humans from bots, prompting privacy concerns among some users despite assurances that videos are deleted after processing.
  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Cool. I don’t have a camera hooked up to my Mac desktop. I specify Mac because Macs have a cool feature where you can use your iPhone (if you have one) as a camera. So basically I just prop my iPhone up against the monitor, screen away from me, and I now have the best webcam. Except, you have to manually do it, some website isn’t just gonna initiate the connection. It’s gonna ask the computer for camera permission. The computer handles all that on the back end. It’s the same on Windows. If you’re using Firefox, specifically, and you deny a website camera access, it doesn’t see a computer with a camera. Then what? I guess it just falls back on the old one?

    Same with my MacBook. It does have a camera, but I don’t have to give any website permission to access it.

    Just say no to this kind of shit. You might not be able to with Android, though I’m fairly certain you can. You might not be able to with Chrome, though I know now you can. But the way Chrome killed ad blocking for the most part? Yeah, they can do that with other privacy protections. Don’t use Chrome.

  • doctor0710@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    If anything, that’s even easier to defeat than the current captchas, no? Like with a VTuber thing, or something like that. This feels more like it’s about collecting face data

    • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      i remember reading that the first captcha with the weird letters was used to train OCR, the second one with the click cars thing was to train self driving cars, so maybe this is to train ai to have a better understanding of hand gestures

      • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
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        5 months ago

        You’re not thinking far enough, it’s probably for humanoid AI robots of the future so they can mimick human movements.

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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    5 months ago

    Another method to get facial recognition data. This goes hand in hand with the other ID submission crap. Fuck off, Google.

  • MrSoup@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    Looks like they want free data to improve their image generation for hand gestures.

  • Obituarykidney@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If I get hit with one of these I’m pressing back on that website. I don’t have a camera and I’m not giving them that much data for free.

    It’ll get to a point where using captcha will lose the website traffic and sales and it won’t be worth it in the long run if people don’t give in to this shit.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    One my most embarrassing personal moments with tech is that I wasn’t immediately revolted when I learned that captcha was being used to farm training data. I just didn’t think it through, and didn’t think I needed to think it through. A hang over from the era of Google in the naughties I suppose.

    Still … fool me once …

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      ReCaptcha was actually a positive effort with the goal being to help OCR tons of old books, so that’s worth something.

    • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The original Google captcha was back in the Don’t Be Evil time, if I’m not mistaken. No shame in believing them back then.

  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    It will be a cold day in hell before I enable my camera to do anything for google or any of those fucking silicon valley parasites. I will quit the fucking internet first.