Wednesday, 18 May 2016

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

If the founders of a new face recognition app get their way, anonymity in public could soon be a thing of the past. FindFace, launched two months ago and currently taking Russia by storm, 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...
Read more: http://snapzu.com/everlost/face-recognition-app-taking-russia-by-storm-may-bring-end-to-public-anonymity

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