caught on CCTV<\/a> giving the finger to the camera just before they set fire to a new building in St Petersburg. Their faces were clearly visible in the CCTV footage, and their identity could be determined immediately by the AI from their social media portraits on vKontakte, the Russian equivalent of Facebook.<\/p>\nThis is just the beginning, and Russia\u2019s FindFace service is showing us a little bit of what the future looks like. In short, having an identified photo where your face is visible \u2013 which most if not all of us have \u2013 looks like it is going to be just as troubling as publishing your DNA sequence and your fingerprints to the entire world.<\/p>\n
This is not about good or evil, as much as it is about the inevitability of technological progress, and the inevitability of society changing with that technological progress. It allows new ways to safeguard privacy, as well as new ways to lose it. Whether one likes this technology or not, it\u2019s obviously here to stay, and it\u2019s available to everybody.<\/p>\n
Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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