Damn.

[azekeil]

Looks like they've done it again. I'll have to reconsider my policy of using my face in my icons, although I think that (initially, at least), the system will only work if people identify the faces to start with, which are taken from other sites. At the moment I don't think there are pages with my face and full name on, so I should be OK (for now).

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[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Which is precisely why one of the things I do is never associate, directly or indirectly, my name or address with my online identity.

Sure, you can associate pictures to my online identity, but that doesn't matter nearly so much.

The point is if there's a central service, like google is for text, it means any joe bloggs who decides he wants to make my life a misery can do as I said before.

The analogy are those people who DID post their names/addresses on their blogs/myspace/whatever, then got upset and wondered why their potential new boss was making lewd suggestions as if he already knew their private life because they took 5 minutes to google the name before interviewing. The same possibility is becoming a reality for photos of faces, too.

Rightly or wrongly, I fear the bungling incompetence of a joe bloggs (in the scenario I describe above, for example) far more than a private detective assigned to trace my identity. Joe bloggs gets a whiff of power and makes my life hell in 5 minutes flat; whereas if I've done something wrong enough (or right enough) to warrant someone spending a bunch of money working out exactly who I am then I'm inclined to let them get on with it.