Russian App Lets You Shoot Photos Of Strangers And Identify Them Online
As if the facial recognition news coming out of Russia wasn’t creepy enough already, it’s now available in App form to users of popular Russian social media network, Vkontakte. FindFace, which launched only two months ago, allows users to photograph people in a crowd and discover their identities with 70% reliability and could be the final nail in the coffin for privacy as we know it. The site works by comparing photographs to profile photos on Vkontakte, so assuming the person you photographed has a profile on the Russian social media site, then there’s a 70% chance that the software will be able to find them in less than a second....