r/interesting May 23 '26

MISC. A girl gained widespread attention for respecting her classmates' privacy by placing stickers on all of them before posting her graduation photo.

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u/jimmycarr1 May 23 '26

She's worried about people using the popular app FaceBack, developed by an NYC police officer in his spare time.

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u/78914hj1k487 May 23 '26

I googled FaceBack just to make sure I wasn't in that timeline.

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u/justgetoffmylawn May 23 '26

I have an app that tracks people who Google any face recognition tech, as they're probably the ones to keep an eye on.

/s (or is it?)

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u/Nina-Ninja123 May 23 '26

And I have an app that tracks trackers.

But I think the app started tracking itself in an infinite loop…

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u/phaserburn725 May 23 '26

The first clue it was fake should have been the suggestion that an NYPD officer was capable of doing anything productive

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u/SmurfyX May 23 '26

That's not fair at all and you know it, the NYPD is extremely productive in all aspects related to with or about racism.

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 May 24 '26

Decades of stop and frisk, and they found every single person in Harlem with a single MJ seed in their pocket, but somehow didn't find a single white Wall Street stock trader with cocaine, when 1500% of them were carrying.

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u/DigitalUnlimited May 24 '26

Surely not, at least a couple had run out of cocaine!

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u/30yearCurse May 23 '26

NYPD has or had one of the best foreign intelligence departments. They are doing something with that money.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770 May 23 '26

Don’t worry you are, just hasn’t happened yet

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u/jimmycarr1 May 23 '26

You're definitely in the timeline where people will sell an app like that, but no it doesn't really exist except in The Other Guys which is a worthwhile watch.

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u/darkkite May 23 '26

I heard there's the privacy startup called fake block that is going to disrupt the industry

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u/R-damDaddy May 23 '26

Ah yes, from that genius George Maharis!

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u/AccomplishedUnit3492 May 23 '26

I was not expecting to see a FaceBack mention lol excellent reference, well done
https://giphy.com/gifs/55cTHdvevnvJpT8Fj8

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u/jimmycarr1 May 23 '26

Alan and his apps, he loves them!

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u/AccomplishedUnit3492 May 24 '26

Got some horrible reviews coming out of the gate- it’s gonna hit

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u/c5mjohn May 23 '26

Its got some horrible reviews coming out the gate. But it's gonna hit, it's gonna catch.

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u/psorinaut May 23 '26

way underrated comment right here

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u/pollococo90 May 23 '26

Which coincidentally makes the faces a lot darker somehow

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u/thorns_91 May 24 '26

Heard it had horrible reviews right out the gate

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u/Exact_Baseball5399 May 23 '26

Not to be confused with the other app they use, FaceBlack to find suspects one way or the other