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Russian Photographer Uses Facial Recognition To Find People He Snaps On Subway, And The Results Are Scary
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"Your Face is Big Data," is a smart but also slightly scary project by Russian photographer Egor Tsvetkov. In order to show how easy it is for complete strangers to gather information about you, Egor spent six weeks taking around 100 pictures of subway commuters in St Petersburg before using a facial recognition app called FindFace to track down their internet profiles.
He used open source software to scan the 55 million plus users of VKontakte, Russia's biggest social network, and despite some of his photographs bearing little resemblance to their online pictures, Egor was (rather alarmingly) able to find around 70% of the people he snapped. “My project is a clear illustration of the future that awaits us if we continue to disclose as much about ourselves on the internet as we do now,” he said. In an age where people are using social media more than ever, perhaps it's time we started to think about how much information we really want to share with the world.
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I think that most of them will be worried not bcause privacy but bcause someone is comparing their "real photos" to their "profile photos"!
:D :D
I think a big problem here is that so many of these people are so glued to their phones they don't even notice someone taking their picture. People need to be more aware of what goes on around them.
it's incredibly easy to take someones picture without them noticing. Even if you think you're paying attention to everything around you, you're really not. You can't keep track of every single person that is around you at all times, and why would you want that? sounds exhausting to me. When i sit on the train or whatever after a long day I just want to relax. So it's not as simple as being "more aware of what goes on around" you.
My comment wasn't meant to get people to be hyper aware of every person or thing around them. It is that simple btw: if the people pictured here (the ones on their phones) had looked up they might have seen the photographer is all I'm saying. If I caught someone taking my picture I would ask why and depending on the reason I would either be ok with it or ask them to delete it. In this case definitely the latter.
Please, like you would know... pfff. All this guy had to do is pretend he was checking his phone but instead do a whole photo session with yo ass!
Yeah, maybe, but I agree with Cassandra's reply. Besides that not all of them are
Not all of them are watching their phones, some are sleeping....
The aesthetics of this list makes me interpret these as "common people and their dreams". The message might be a bit frightening, true, but it kinda reminds that all those "expressionless zombies" really are colourful people filled with life.
That's exactly what I got from this!and it's actually a much more positive message than the one the photographer wanted to put out
I think that most of them will be worried not bcause privacy but bcause someone is comparing their "real photos" to their "profile photos"!
:D :D
I think a big problem here is that so many of these people are so glued to their phones they don't even notice someone taking their picture. People need to be more aware of what goes on around them.
it's incredibly easy to take someones picture without them noticing. Even if you think you're paying attention to everything around you, you're really not. You can't keep track of every single person that is around you at all times, and why would you want that? sounds exhausting to me. When i sit on the train or whatever after a long day I just want to relax. So it's not as simple as being "more aware of what goes on around" you.
My comment wasn't meant to get people to be hyper aware of every person or thing around them. It is that simple btw: if the people pictured here (the ones on their phones) had looked up they might have seen the photographer is all I'm saying. If I caught someone taking my picture I would ask why and depending on the reason I would either be ok with it or ask them to delete it. In this case definitely the latter.
Please, like you would know... pfff. All this guy had to do is pretend he was checking his phone but instead do a whole photo session with yo ass!
Yeah, maybe, but I agree with Cassandra's reply. Besides that not all of them are
Not all of them are watching their phones, some are sleeping....
The aesthetics of this list makes me interpret these as "common people and their dreams". The message might be a bit frightening, true, but it kinda reminds that all those "expressionless zombies" really are colourful people filled with life.
That's exactly what I got from this!and it's actually a much more positive message than the one the photographer wanted to put out