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Isn't there an app that lets you take/provide a photo of somebody's face and get their VK profile?
by Catsandkites 6y ago
Isn't there an app that lets you take/provide a photo of somebody's face and get their VK profile?
- grishka 6y agoFindFace? It shut down its user-facing service several years ago and focused on selling its technology. There are rumors it has some government contracts.
- sorenjan 6y agoNow there's FindClone instead. And I would consider finding somebody's identity by matching a photo of them with a database of VK profile pictures a privacy nightmare. I don't know If they got the pictures via an API or scraping, but it shows what can be done with easy access to this kind of data. People used FindFace to deanonymize porn actresses and out them to family for instance. https://towardsdatascience.com/steeling-faces-for-investigative-journalism-a-double-edged-sword-8d7d3719ad5 https://towardsdatascience.com/steeling-faces-for-investigat... https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/05/02/facial-recognition-used-to-strip-sex-workers-of-anonymity/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/05/02/facial-recogniti...