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
#2But only if you published your photos in public. If you dont spread your photos around the web you still safe in crowd.
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#3But only if you published your photos in public. If you dont spread your photos around the web you still safe in crowd.
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.
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#4technology is a double edge sword. We'd better adopt a Snowden mindset.
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#5Stalkers delight
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#6But only if you published your photos in public. If you dont spread your photos around the web you still safe in crowd.
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?
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#7But only if you published your photos in public. If you dont spread your photos around the web you still safe in crowd.
If you have a passport or drivers licens then the government, and thus the police, already have your picture.
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#8technology is a double edge sword. We'd better adopt a Snowden mindset.
Honestly, this evolution became obvious more than 10 years ago.
Btw, Snowden is about illegal mass surveillance by the government (in collaboration with tech corporations). The app mentioned in the article however only connects publicly and legally available data (the consumer's fault).
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#9That'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't believe you or tell you that something like this is only possible in movies.
Even today it's no problem to analyze the Facebook picture of some random person and calculate a chance of that person being an alcoholic in X years based on the number of party pictures they share.
Before sharing personal information online, people should not ask themselves what could be done with that data now, but what is possible with that data in the future.
If Facebook is going out of business (just as a thought), their data has a lot of value. Don't think that they will delete everything. It will go to the highest bidder!
Re: Russia’s new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70% accuracy
#10technology is a double edge sword. We'd better adopt a Snowden mindset.
Honestly, this evolution became obvious more than 10 years ago. Btw, Snowden is about illegal mass surveillance by the government (in collaboration with tech corporations). The app mentioned in the article however only connects publicly and legally available data (the consumer's fault).
> (the consumer's fault).
I doubt that. No one prevents someone tagging me on Facebook even if I don't have a Facebook account. Now Facebook knows my name and the corresponding face without me ever using Facebook.