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Some might laugh this off as 'oh it's just scraping'. But I remember reading some comments in HN that there are apps that can scan faces and pull personal info
by throwaway78981 5y ago
Some might laugh this off as 'oh it's just scraping'. But I remember reading some comments in HN that there are apps that can scan faces and pull personal info including where they live, work etc. So each leak uncovers a person little by little.
This vindicates the stance taken by Signal to not even collect metadata.
Edit: I mean surreptitiously scan the face of a stranger you see in public and the app will tell you about them. Don't know names of the apps.
- dutchbrit 5y agohttps://pimeyes.com https://pimeyes.com does just that, I just posted it here on HN.
- kbenson 5y agoI always want to know what a service like that has found, but I'm also pretty unwilling to upload an image of me to it, given that there's not a lot of public images of me out there that I'm aware of. Then again, maybe if I did check I'd see a bunch of images where I was tagged by other people and that would disabuse me of the notion that images of me online are rare at all...
- throwawayy293 5y agohttps://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI already does that too
- Sephr 5y ago> there are apps that can scan faces and pull personal info including where they live, work etc Note that these services are also powered by scraping public data.