Snapchat’s “My Selfie” by default reserves the right to use your likeness in ads.
Snapchat is reserving the right to put its users’ faces in ads, according to terms of service related to its “My Selfie” tool (formerly “AI Selfies”), which allows users and their friends to create AI-generated images trained on their selfies.
Users have the option to opt out of this by toggling off a “feature” in the app called “See My Selfie in Ads,” but according to 404 Media’s testing this feature is on by default.
I cannot, I have had it for over a decade at this rate I think and my number associated is old now and I can't log into to the website to delete. I can log into the app and use it but cannot delete it.
they know that the type of people who use snapchat of all fucking things either don't give a shit, or are too ignorant to see it as an issue. if they ever read about this at all. at the end of the day, they know that not enough people will ditch the platform to make any difference
For anyone that has friends that can be convinced to move off snapchat:
it doesn't actually delete things after the timer goes out, it just hides it from view. Sometimes the app bugs out and that data will be accessible again
signal has stories and the same format of disappearing messages
everything else that's good about signal
If what they want is the "One weird trick your doctor is hiding from you" style content on the discover page, then I got nothing.
I really did think that a Chinese social media company would never stand a chance here. I run into 80 year old farmers who ask me, “Did you see ‘at feller on TikTok who does ‘at thang with the tractor?”
That same person will go on and on about China. People are neat.
I can't think of a way for this to be legal in the EU by any capacity. I really don't. They're essentially claiming they own your likeness just by using their app and I really doubt it's that simple. It's kind of like asking for your first born in a readme.txt of a github script. Just because you write something ridiculous doesn't mean it's legal.
You think that will stop them? They'll just do it and pay a comparatively small fine to the government in a decade after they get around to investigating it. And that's the best case scenario. More realistically nothing will ever happen.
I mean, this is dumb, but it's only ads specifically shown to you so it isn't really a privacy issue. The headline seems like it's intentionally trying to make it seem a lot worse than it is
I don't why you are so downvoted. Your comment didn't come off as shilling for Snapchat or anything, and it just clarifies things for people who only read the headline. I appreciate the clarification.
This is still an invasion of privacy, but not quite as egregious as using people's faces in global advertisements. Obligatory fuck Snapchat, regardless.
I mean yeah it's a stupid feature that they probably shouldn't have, I just think the headline is super misleading since it implies they would use your face to advertise to to others which isn't true.