Thanks to a Russian company, it will be easier than ever before for computers to identify you by your face. For better or for worse?
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Have you ever thought that you could get a person’s full history, not knowing his name and only having a not very high quality photo of him?
It’s easy now. The FindFace app developed by a Russian company N-Tech.Lab will find a profile on the largest Russian social network “VKontakte” (analogue of Facebook).
Face recognition technology will search a database of 300 million photos in less than a second, and was the best among international competitors in The MegaFace Benchmark organized by the University of Washington.
Will it be a new way to find your soul mate or the final blow to privacy?
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