{"id":181644,"date":"2016-04-26T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/26\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-37\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T23:05:00","slug":"live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/26\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Live in Obedient Fear, Citizen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>What a surprise.  People are <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/tech-policy\/2016\/04\/facial-recognition-findface-used-against-russian-porn-actresses\/\">using facial recognition to stalk porn stars<\/a>.  I expect this to extend to non porn stars shortly:<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/advox.globalvoices.org\/2016\/04\/22\/facial-recognition-service-becomes-a-weapon-against-russian-porn-actresses\/\">Global Voices Advocacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The developers behind \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/findface.ru\/search\">FindFace<\/a>,\u201d which uses facial recognition software to match random photographs to people\u2019s social media pages on Vkontakte, say the service is designed to facilitate making new friends. Released in February this year, FindFace started gaining popularity in March after a software engineer named Andrei Mima wrote about using the service to track down two women he photographed six years earlier on a street in St. Petersburg. (They\u2019d asked him to take a picture of them, but he never got their contact information, so he wasn\u2019t able to share it with them at the time.)<\/p>\n<p>From the start, FindFace has raised privacy concerns. (Even in his glowing recommendation, Mima addressed fears that the service further erodes people\u2019s freedoms in the age of the Internet.) In early April, a young artist named Egor Tsvetkov highlighted how invasive the technology can be, photographing random passengers on the St. Petersburg subway and matching the pictures to the individuals\u2019 Vkontakte pages using FindFace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn theory,\u201d Tsvetkov <a href=\"https:\/\/globalvoices.org\/2016\/04\/07\/in-russia-your-face-is-big-data\/\">told RuNet Echo<\/a>, &#8220;this service could be used by a serial killer or a collector trying to hunt down a debtor.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t just the government that is creating a panopticon.&nbsp; The private sector is moving there even faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a surprise. People are using facial recognition to stalk porn stars. I expect this to extend to non porn stars shortly: This story originally appeared on Global Voices Advocacy The developers behind \u201cFindFace,\u201d which uses facial recognition software to match random photographs to people\u2019s social media pages on Vkontakte, say the service is designed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,969,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-evil","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}