Russian Photographer’s Experiment Destroys the Illusion of Privacy

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Russian Photographer’s Experiment Destroys the Illusion of Privacy

Russian photographer and art student Egor Tsvetkov used his own photos and a facial recognition app to destroy any illusion of privacy we might have with

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2016/04/13/photog-matches-photos-taken-subway/

He put his photos into an app called FindFace to see if it could identify the people he had taken pictures of on Russia’s main social media site VKontakte. Long story short: the app did VERY well