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05-03-2016, 06:51 PM
Facial recognition app used to shame *** workers in Russia
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*** workers and ****ography actresses in Russia are being identified through a facial recognition app and then harassed online.
It's a sad and sadly inevitable use of such tech**logy, which has already become relatively ubiquitous through photo programs like Facebook's Moments and Google Photos.
SEE ALSO: Uber launches new facial recognition feature in China (http://mashable.com/2016/04/21/uber-china-facial-recognition/)
Those apps don't allow for the identification of random people, but Russia's FindFace (http://findface.ru/login) does.*
FindFace is an app that rather terrifyingly allows users to take photos of anyone and find them on Vkontakte (VK), a Russian social network that is often compared to Facebook. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/03/facial-recognition-russia-shame-***-workers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Facial Recognition (http://mashable.com/category/facial-recognition/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) and Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/drbHyv_1uzI
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*** workers and ****ography actresses in Russia are being identified through a facial recognition app and then harassed online.
It's a sad and sadly inevitable use of such tech**logy, which has already become relatively ubiquitous through photo programs like Facebook's Moments and Google Photos.
SEE ALSO: Uber launches new facial recognition feature in China (http://mashable.com/2016/04/21/uber-china-facial-recognition/)
Those apps don't allow for the identification of random people, but Russia's FindFace (http://findface.ru/login) does.*
FindFace is an app that rather terrifyingly allows users to take photos of anyone and find them on Vkontakte (VK), a Russian social network that is often compared to Facebook. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/03/facial-recognition-russia-shame-***-workers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Facial Recognition (http://mashable.com/category/facial-recognition/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) and Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/drbHyv_1uzI