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New APP Lets You Find Strangers on FACEBOOK just by snapping their pic
2017-03-15
[MAXIM] Next time you pass by a sexy stranger, rather than imagining her identity or fanciful ideas of your future life together, simply snap her photo and track down her Facebook. Hey, it's not creepy or invasive at all!
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A new app developed by British entrepreneur Jack Kenyon called "Facezam" is seeking to become the Shazam of faces. While the latter lets you identify music you like through audio recognition, Facezam matches your photos of strangers with their Facebook accounts.

It works scanning billions of Facebook profile shots by second and can reportedly match up with the right out in just 10 seconds and with 70 percent accuracy.

"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead." Revelation 13:16
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  In order for it to work, ya' gotta have your picture on Fazebook first.
Posted by: Barbara   2017-03-15 20:57  

#9  #3 Time to buy that paste on groucho mustache and ugly pair of sun glasses...

Was playing the other day with a neural network to recognize images. Got me wondering about using bold streaks of face paint to defeat facial recognition. Rather like dazzle camouflage for ships back before radar became The Next Big Thing.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-03-15 15:29  

#8  Me neither.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-03-15 13:20  

#7  That's why I'm not on facebook.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-03-15 11:44  

#6  Tech, not UV, forcing the adoption of veils(noqab).
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-03-15 10:42  

#5  It is creepy and invasive and borders on or is stalking. "You don't know me but I took your picture in a crowd, looked you up on Facebook, and tracked you down. Do you want to go out?"
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-03-15 09:40  

#4  We come in friendship for the children.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-15 09:25  

#3  Time to buy that paste on groucho mustache and ugly pair of sun glasses...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-03-15 09:17  

#2  Voluntary BAT's and HIIDES, who knew ?

The Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) and the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE) system also are used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-15 09:15  

#1  The Telegraph:

The technology could help reduce crime by making everyone identifiable, Kenyon had claimed, adding that the public implications of the app couldn't be predicted. "There may be a mix of positives and negatives," he said.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-03-15 08:12  

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