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I believe their point is that surveillance systems that are used to identify people are being trained on social media images and they don't want those systems to be better. The point is not personal risk, but systemic/societal risk
correct. but there is also personal element... since the systems being sold would be trained your own pictures from socials.
versus person who does have as many pictures esp not under their own social media account, would be less likely to be correctly ID'ed by such system.
this is more of trust me bro, i am not an expert but i do know that denying the parasite date is always the right choice.
bottom line though, even if i opt out and all of you opt in, i still lose. herd has to reject the parasite as a whole for this tactic to be a real show stopper. most people are no there yet.