On the other hand, a debate has been started over whether it’s an ordinary trend or a scam. It took over social media – Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Technology commentator thinks it’s all a huge play by companies to better understand users.
“Nine times out of 10 it is a scam, the whole push and the reason for these games or puzzles is to give a company access to your information and your data so that they can better understand you and your networks to pitch advertising at you,” he said.
He continued: “Anyone in the information technology industry had the ability to start these games to test new software.”
Also:
The #10YearsChallenge has certainly contributed loads of data to AI, Deep Learning and (especially) facial recognition technology platforms. Thank you for your generosity everyone, for putting this data in one pool ?
— JJ. Omojuwa (@Omojuwa) January 16, 2019
What do you think? Innocent fun or big scam?
Image: WIRED.
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