Your Face is Big Data is a project by a Russian photographer that shows the terrifying power of facial recognition technology. With its help, Egor Cvetkov revealed the identity of complete strangers.
Why would we even ask strangers by name when we have facial recognition technology? Russian photographer Egor Cvetkov with the project Your Face is Big Data reveals the slightly scary capabilities of facial recognition technology. To prove how easy it is to gather information about complete strangers, he took around 100 photos in the subway of St. Petersburg in six weeks complete strangers, and then with help facial recognition applications FindFace searched their profiles and data on the largest Russian social network VKontakte.
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"My project shows what the future holds if we continue to reveal as much about ourselves online as we do now." Perhaps it is really high time to reconsider how much about ourselves we really want to share with the web/world.
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