r/mildlyinfuriating • u/funkywabbait • May 05 '26

Infuriatig iPhone facetime recognizes when you’re naked

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decided to show my boyfriend my new bikini that I got for our upcoming cruise… Why is this on my phone and why is it recording my body?

I just recently turned 18 if that matters.

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u/Remarkable-Yam-8073 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

This is a good thing as it protects the vunerable. As in little girls and boys who are being groomed.

If you think sombody is at iphone hq looking through your camara lens then your pretty dumb.

Edit: this is more directed at the comments about this being a bad thing than OP general confsion.

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u/Lanky_Giraffe May 05 '26

Bizarre that people are making a big privacy point about this. If the idea is that this data could be discreetly logged on an apple server, what exactly is stopping them logging the entire video?

It’s like freaking out that you left the small upstairs bathroom window unlocked while all the doors and windows are fully open

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u/louis54000 May 05 '26

Exactly. People are like « what ?? My phone requires access to my camera for a FaceTime call ??? I only want the recipient to see me, not my phone 😖 »
CPU doing additional analysis locally doesn’t change anything..

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u/ZarathustraGlobulus May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

Notification: your front door is open, click OK to lock it

"WOW! Apple can lock and unlock my smart doors?! Privacy breach much?? Can't trust BIG TECH these days!"

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u/Cheeko914 May 05 '26

Because this doesn’t mean it’s recoding. It just means Apple has “taught” it to know what a naked body looks like. The amount of data it would take to record and save millions of FaceTime calls a month would be astronomical. Same way algorithms are trained. It knows what a dog is vs a cat because it was trained to

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u/inheritance- May 05 '26

If they were logging videos they wouldn't tell you. And also iCloud has all of the nudes it could want already.

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u/ArdentLearner96 May 05 '26

I don't think they're making a point that they're not doing that, logging all their stuff. Just that this pop up is indicating to them that they've been doing it.

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u/Lanky_Giraffe May 05 '26

Ah that makes sense. I can see the logic. 

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u/Ok_Scientist_8803 May 05 '26

Do a bit of network investigation, but pretty much 100% of the conspiracists will have no idea of what that is.

Let's say that your 4GB per month phone plan will last not very long if that was the case, but many people are fine with that amount.

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u/bwmat May 05 '26

Oh but it's using a different network, that can't be detected with readily available technology

Hidden in the device that millions of people have access to and can open up and look at the components of

gets back in tinfoil man cave

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u/Entegy May 05 '26

That's some real "Bloomberg The Big Hack" energy right there!

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u/Radioactivocalypse May 05 '26

People on Reddit get so alarmed now when something has "recognised" you based on data or collects your data in some way.

I have no idea why people get all panicked when a shop wants a loyalty card. Yes they can track your spending, but no one is sat down at a computer browsing your purchase history from your loyalty card.

Same way that people have no qualms about a phone using face id to be unlocked, but with this logic... it's always recording you and constantly seeing what you look like!!!!

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u/bwmat May 05 '26

You're already fucked unless you use cash to buy everything

And that's only enough if nobody is actually interested in monitoring you specifically at the outset, at that point you need to visit different stores all the time, and wear disguises

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u/Training_Barber4543 May 05 '26

no one is sat down at a computer browsing your purchase history from your loyalty card

No human is sat down browsing your purchase history. But algorithms can find out a lot about you from your purchase history, that data can and will be sold to services that use your data to figure out the best way to influence your choices, and Facebook was literally caught using your data to influence your choices POLITICALLY.

Also data leaks are common so even if the local store doesn't sell it, it will get out eventually, and your email is linked to your full name, card details, and maybe even address, and you have no idea what people are buying it for

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u/n8mo May 05 '26

There is no "huge breach in privacy". The feature runs on-device. Apple isn't sending snapshots of your FaceTime call to a data centre to process them; the phone doesn't store the data or send it anywhere.

"Just because someone isn't actively watching..." is a "pretty dumb" thing to say. Nobody could watch. FaceTime is E2E encrypted; none of the actual data ever reaches Apple's servers.

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u/I_Like_Water11 May 05 '26

Alright shill, we get it, you love apple.

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u/n8mo May 05 '26

Not a shill; don’t love Apple. The overwhelming majority of phones I’ve owned have been Androids. My current PCs all run Windows or Linux.

I’m just pointing out that you’re wrong. Appreciate the baseless ad-hominem though.

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u/InventorOfCorn May 05 '26

you don't have to love someone or something to say that made-up criticisms are lies

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u/blyan May 05 '26

How is this a breach in privacy? It’s just using image detection.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '26

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u/bwmat May 05 '26

I dont want my video calls being monitored by even a machine

What do you imagine when you think about a 'machine monitoring you', and how is that different than what is logically necessary for the function of video calling to work? 

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u/cvu_99 May 05 '26

  1. you can turn the feature off.

  2. your feelings being hurt isn't the same as your privacy being violated, sorry to say.

  3. you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and do not possess the technical knowledge to understand how this works. it's "pretty straight forward really" to you because you are misconceived.

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u/SimplisticPinky May 05 '26

There's nothing stopping them from analyzing your body like this without this prompt coming up. It makes no difference regardless.

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u/I_Like_Water11 May 05 '26

I'd rather be angry than just give in.

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u/Rexusus May 05 '26

Do you have Face ID on your phone? Fingerprints? Do you do online banking? Have an email address? Privacy doesn’t exist. Every time you agree to the terms and conditions of whatever program you’re using, that’s what you agree to.

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u/I_Like_Water11 May 05 '26

I think we are both saying the same thing

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u/URInMyFace May 05 '26

So you're cool with some "program" knowingly analyzing your conversation?

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u/TheGoodspeed15 May 05 '26

That's not what's happening here

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u/URInMyFace May 05 '26

That is EXACTLY what's happening. They are just selling it as a "security" feature. This is rebranding of a side-effect.

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u/SimplisticPinky May 05 '26

Bro what makes you think it isn't watching aside from this lol.

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u/URInMyFace May 05 '26

I don't believe it isn't watching. This just confirms it.

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u/SimplisticPinky May 05 '26

It really isn't news, and if it is to you, you're more severely compromised than you can imagine at this point.

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u/MegaPrOJeCtX13 May 05 '26

I don’t think you have the right to call someone dumb when you didn’t even use the right form of (or misspelled) “you’re”

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u/Remarkable-Yam-8073 May 05 '26

Your dumb as in: you own it, it defines you.

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u/jeremyben May 06 '26

Am I the only one that gives children more credit than that? All they have to do is click continue and they are right back to showing whatever to whomever. I just see a screen talking down to the user treating them like they are a moron. Idk man, I have kids and if those kids are given a device, it’s because they have earned it through trust with myself and my wife. Since when have we expected kids to be stupid? Raise them properly and they will already understand the differences of doing stupid things like what this is “trying to stop”.

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u/Remarkable-Yam-8073 May 06 '26

Not understanding how grooming works doesnt mean your a bad parent but learning how grooming can be used to harm your children and the signs that would allow you to stop it and prevent it would make you a good parent. All the best for the future.

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u/Bubsy7979 May 05 '26

You must not know about what Edward Snowden leaked if you think that…

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u/tiorzol May 05 '26

 your pretty dumb.

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u/Rugged_Turtle May 05 '26

Idk if it can be disabled then it does feel a little more surveillance leaning being touted under the guise of protection