Russian photographer matches random people with social network photos
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#2The artist (or the article) suggests that the pictures he took on the metro are the 'real' person, whereas the pictures on the social site are the 'ideal' person.
I'm not so sure. I think its very possible that the person in the social network photographs is actually far closer to the person they really are than the photo of them riding alone on the subway.
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#3I keep trying to figure out why this feels so wrong and creepy. You're in public, you can't avoid some random person from taking your picture. You have a public profile, you post pictures of yourself there, in public. But some how this feels... wrong, why is that?
Something about the surprise of it? It feels like a surprise, it feels like something that shouldn't be so easy.
Re: Russian photographer matches random people with social network photos
#4The artist (or the article) suggests that the pictures he took on the metro are the 'real' person, whereas the pictures on the social site are the 'ideal' person. I'm not so sure. I think its very possible that the person in the social network photographs is actually far closer to the person they really are than the photo of them riding alone on the subway.
>> whereas the pictures on the social site are the 'ideal' person.
Maybe it's that the picture on the web was chosen. Someone put thought into that, they said "oh hey I look good here", it's kinda like an ideal, or at least an above average view of themselves.
Re: Russian photographer matches random people with social network photos
#5I keep trying to figure out why this feels so wrong and creepy. You're in public, you can't avoid some random person from taking your picture. You have a public profile, you post pictures of yourself there, in public. But some how this feels... wrong, why is that? Something about the surprise of it? It feels like a surprise, it feels like something that shouldn't be so easy.
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#6I keep trying to figure out why this feels so wrong and creepy. You're in public, you can't avoid some random person from taking your picture. You have a public profile, you post pictures of yourself there, in public. But some how this feels... wrong, why is that? Something about the surprise of it? It feels like a surprise, it feels like something that shouldn't be so easy.
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And in most places it still wouldn't be socially acceptable even if it may be legal.
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#7So, you can no longer assume being anonymous when walking down the street. If your random photo is matched with your profile, you can be basically fully identified anywhere. With all those cameras everywhere, you could be fully tracked.
Re: Russian photographer matches random people with social network photos
#8I keep trying to figure out why this feels so wrong and creepy. You're in public, you can't avoid some random person from taking your picture. You have a public profile, you post pictures of yourself there, in public. But some how this feels... wrong, why is that? Something about the surprise of it? It feels like a surprise, it feels like something that shouldn't be so easy.
This is just a taste... Now imagine what it must feel like to be a celebrity and have this be an every day occurrence-- hounded by paparazzi.
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#9The artist (or the article) suggests that the pictures he took on the metro are the 'real' person, whereas the pictures on the social site are the 'ideal' person. I'm not so sure. I think its very possible that the person in the social network photographs is actually far closer to the person they really are than the photo of them riding alone on the subway.
Further, the artist is clearly curating what he shows and what he doesn't and likely has his own message.
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#10I don't see why this can't be done in real time.
Point your phone towards a person in a cafe and immediately figure out her name, age, maybe relationship status, social class, augmented reality style.
5 minutes later accidentally bump into her .. and start a conversation, armed with lots of private info about the person.
Or even more basic - thieves picking their targets - is this woman's purse likely to contain a lot of money and jewelry ?
I guess you could even write a tool which picks all the faces from a photo, and detects who's probably richest, most popular, most followed, etc.
But this is unavoidable, right ? We just have to accept it as a fact of life and adapt to it..