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John Levine <ietf@johnlevine.com> Tue, 28 July 2020 02:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [108attendees] Meetecho participant pics
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In article <69dbc66f-2c41-2b0f-c15a-7c361f591244@huitema.net> you write:
>I read John's message stating that this is a benign service from
>Wordpress, a byproduct of their need to identify posters of comments on
>their blogging service. That may well be, but this is still a third
>party tracker. There is nothing that technically prevent Wordpress to
>change the terms and monetize the data in the future. Let's hope that
>Meetecho may be able to react quickly in that case.

Given that Gravatar has been around for 13 years and is doing exactly
the same thing now that it was 13 years ago, and that Automattic has
an obvious motivation to maintain it and not alienate their paying
Wordpress users, I'm not too worried about it. They never "need"
avatars to identify posters, the pix are tied to the e-mail addresses
that are part of the user's identity.

>On the other hand, avatars do have a privacy advantage over actual
>pictures. They cannot be used to train a face recognition database.

Gravatar allows you to upload whatever you want.  They're lousy for
training because they're quite small.

R's,
John

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