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Maybe it's Europeans posting this kind of stuff where they have much stronger privacy laws, but if you're in the US this is all wishful thinking.

Do you shop in large corporate stores and use credit cards? Do you go out in public in transportation registered to you?

If yes, then images and habits of yours are being stored in databases and sold to data brokers.

And you're not even including every single one of your family members that use internet connected devices/apps that are sucking up all the data they can.



I was just asking about the ability of photo aging software, not commenting about privacy at all. Though yes, I am thankfully in Europe (but there are recent photos of me online).

But don't disagree with you - in a different comment that was about privacy, I (despite living under GDPR) suggested that for offline verification with known people it's better to choose secrets that definitely haven't been shared online/anywhere rather than just choosing random true facts and assuming they couldn't have been found out by hackers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40353820




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