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May 17, 2016 06:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LFas_pz5uQs/face-recognition-app-taking-russia-by-storm-may-bring-end-to-public-anonymity
Face Recognition App Taking Russia By Storm May Bring End To Public Anonymity
An anonymous reader writes: Anonymity in public could soon become a thing of the past. A service called FindFace allows users to photograph people in a crowd and work out their identities with 70% reliability. It works by comparing photographs to profile pictures on Vkontakte, a social network popular in Russia and the former Soviet Union, with more than 200 million accounts. In future, the designers imagine a world where people walking past you on the street could find your social network profile by sneaking a photograph of you, and shops, advertisers and the police could pick your face out of crowds and track you down via social networks. In the short time since the launch, FindFace has amassed 500,000 users and processed nearly 3m searches.The Newsweek wrote about this app last month. The publication reported on an abuse of the app in which porn stars and sex workers were targeted. Some wanted to use FindFace for the purpose of "outing" these sex workers to their families and social media contacts.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LFas_pz5uQs/face-recognition-app-taking-russia-by-storm-may-bring-end-to-public-anonymity
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