Your Face is Big Data

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Interesting project by Russian photographer Egor Tsvetkov in which he took photos of random, anonymous, people riding the subway, and then running them through a face recognition app named FindFace. The result: 70% of those photographed could be linked to one or social network profiles of ‘m, thus un-anonymizing them.

End of anonymity: Identification of random passengers (Russian) →

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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