Excuse me – Russia's new FindFace app? I'll have to research this on The United States of America's Google app.
Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
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Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#12But only if you published your photos in public. If you dont spread your photos around the web you still safe in crowd.
There are all kinds of ways your picture can end up on the web without you putting it there. Perhaps you where at an event where pictures where taken and uploaded to Facebook. Perhaps your company has an employee profiles page. Perhaps you where photographed for your local newspaper a few years ago when you did that things. Saying "I haven't spread my photos thus they don't exist" is extremely naive.
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Findface can't identify you, who are you, why are you walking past my house? I have never seen you before, I'm going to call the police, you're acting strange.
Do you expect police to come every time you see a stranger?
I can imagine things getting to the stage where someone not being findable on the face register is considered suspicious enough for police attention.
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#14But only if you published your photos in public. If you dont spread your photos around the web you still safe in crowd.
Nope, your lifelong discipline of not publishing a single self-photo online will be undone by someone else who snaps a photo of you and posts it online.
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#15Now aggressively poll the new images with GPS location from Instagram/Twitter/Facebook, identify every face in sight, and build a realtime map of everyone everywhere!
(Actually for a lot of shots you could probably get by without the GPS location by recognizing some landmarks in the background)
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#16That's the thing with personal pictures online. Most people can't imagine what is going to happen in the future. People on Hacker News well understand this issue, but ask your non-computer friends and family. If you'd tell them, that you can take a picture of a random person and search that picture out of a pool of people and get their contact info (as a private company / random programmer with enough data), they won…
So true.
And even if you're careful with your own data...some other person might not and upload and tag photos with your name.
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#17That's the thing with personal pictures online. Most people can't imagine what is going to happen in the future. People on Hacker News well understand this issue, but ask your non-computer friends and family. If you'd tell them, that you can take a picture of a random person and search that picture out of a pool of people and get their contact info (as a private company / random programmer with enough data), they won…
Easy to exploit this today too and not that uncommon either.
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#18From a purely technical point of view:
Does anyone knows what they are using for face matching? their results sounds excellent.
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#19Now aggressively poll the new images with GPS location from Instagram/Twitter/Facebook, identify every face in sight, and build a realtime map of everyone everywhere! (Actually for a lot of shots you could probably get by without the GPS location by recognizing some landmarks in the background)
>> "Actually for a lot of shots you could probably get by without the GPS location by recognizing some landmarks in the background"
Yes, this is already being done.
EDIT: Curious, why this is getting downvotes, any thought on why?
EDIT-2: Here's an example, though the general gist is you grab millions of photos with geo-location meta data, then train against this to ID the location of photos without the location meta-data:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/25/11112594/google-new-deep-l...
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#20But only if you published your photos in public. If you dont spread your photos around the web you still safe in crowd.
Your picture might already be on the internet. Your friends may have uploaded a picture from a party or school reunion on Facebook. And since Facebook nagged them and they thought it'd be cool to tag you on the picture even though you don't have a Facebook account.