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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

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Post by kardos »

axx wrote: post #9

That'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…

That's a really hard battle to fight, even for those of us who understand the full implications. The entire population is not going to drop facebook overnight, it does deliver some sort of value to them despite it's heavy privacy price.

I'm beginning to believe that the answer is to simply devalue all that information. We can do it in some contexts on the technical side, for example, rotating passwords devalues stolen credentials, virtual credit cards, random MAC for wireless scanning, etc.

So how far can we push this? If you got into my email, but 90% of the messages there were generated by AI and 10% are legit, can you accurately profile me?

To get a little more on topic, how close do you think we are to 3D printers that can print a mask of your face? Once that happens, will the value of these "face recognisers" drop off a bit?

Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy

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Post by bhouston »

acaloiar wrote: post #11

Excuse me – Russia's new FindFace app? I'll have to research this on The United States of America's Google app.

It is distinctly russian because it works on the social network that is only popular in Russia, VK.

Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy

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Post by axx »

kardos wrote: post #21
axx wrote: post #9

That'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…

That's a really hard battle to fight, even for those of us who understand the full implications. The entire population is not going to drop facebook overnight, it does deliver some sort of value to them despite it's heavy privacy price. I'm beginning to believe that the answer is to simply devalue all that information. We can do it in some contexts on the technical side, for example, rotating passwords devalues stole…

I have hope that this will change. Because more and more people live a fake life on social media.

Some people go crazy and share everything, but more and more people share less[^1] and if they share something, it's only something that holds together their "clean image".

1: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/7/11387604/facebook-personal-...

Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy

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Post by aquadrop »

axx wrote: post #9

That'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…

What I'm more afraid of, is that if you say that to regular people, they'll answer "So, what?" and keep not thinking of any their online actions.
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