Russian Photographer Uses Facial Recognition To Find People He Snaps On Subway, And The Results Are Scary

"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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pearl dsouza 7 years ago

You know nothing Jon Snow!!!!

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Estefani Licea Madrigal 7 years ago

All i know it's that cake looks delicious and I want some

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Sunniva Jønsson 7 years ago

The same bag:)

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What do you think ?

Bear Books 7 years ago

I think that most of them will be worried not bcause privacy but bcause someone is comparing their "real photos" to their "profile photos"!

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Soya Komorebi 7 years ago

:D :D

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Nyello 7 years ago

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.

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Casandra Nițescu 7 years ago

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.

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Hritcu Stefan 7 years ago

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 a*s!

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Daria B 7 years ago

Yeah, maybe, but I agree with Cassandra's reply. Besides that not all of them are

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.

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Alexandra Lewis 7 years ago

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

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