anyone can legally gather and market your facial data without explicit consent

  • Written by: Margarita Vladimirova, PhD in Privacy Law and Facial Recognition Technology, Deakin University
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The morning started with a message from a friend: “I used your photos to train my local version of Midjourney. I hope you don’t mind”, followed up with generated pictures of me wearing a flirty steampunk costume.

I did in fact mind. I felt violated. Wouldn’t you? I bet Taylor Swift did when deepfakes of...

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