The Daily Outrage: January 17, 2019

1. Some people somewhere thought it would be cute to show your 2009 profile photo up against your present one because decades are tidy and a large chunk of users joined in 2008–9.
2. Lots of people followed suit
3. Conspiracies arose that Facebook was using these posts to create facial recognition profiles (they already exist, and they’re right there for you to see on Apple, Google and Facebook products).
4. Facebook itself engineered the experiment specifically for these purposes
5. The reason for this experiment is a secret plan to attack your privacy in some unspecified manner we don’t know about.

So today’s daily outrage is:

Facebook conned me into using their product and uploading photos of me, which is an outrageous violation of my privacy.