Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Isn't there an app that lets you take/provide a photo of somebody's face and get their VK profile?



FindFace? It shut down its user-facing service several years ago and focused on selling its technology. There are rumors it has some government contracts.


Now there's FindClone instead. And I would consider finding somebody's identity by matching a photo of them with a database of VK profile pictures a privacy nightmare. I don't know If they got the pictures via an API or scraping, but it shows what can be done with easy access to this kind of data. People used FindFace to deanonymize porn actresses and out them to family for instance.

https://towardsdatascience.com/steeling-faces-for-investigat...

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/05/02/facial-recogniti...




Consider applying for YC's Spring batch! Applications are open till Feb 11.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: