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RE: My Self Online - thinking about data ownership, privacy and anonymity
Hello person z. I share your objection to posting your photo. If the purpose is for account recovery, let us submit the photo to the steemit website itself. The site could encrypt it using its memo key. The photos would hen need to be stored somewhere, however.
Account photo is used to show the community you are not some other user pretending to be a new user. And if you lose control of your keys you can post a new photo saying you need to recover your account.
From what I'm reading, the purpose is more about trying to stop bots, multiple accounts and catfishing / impersonation. For account recovery it looks like if you trust someone enough, you can recover your account through them. Pretty novel approach.