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DIY Facial Recognition for Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster

Posted on June 1, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Samantha Cole reports:

Someone posting on Chinese social network Weibo claims to have used facial recognition to cross-reference women’s photos on social media with faces pulled from videos on adult platforms like Pornhub.

In a Monday post on Weibo, the user, who says he’s based in Germany, claimed to have “successfully identified more than 100,000 young ladies” in the adult industry “on a global scale.”

To be clear, the user has posted no proof that he’s actually been able to do this, and hasn’t published any code, databases, or anything else besides an empty GitLab page to verify this is real.

Read more on Vice.

Category: OnlineSurveillance

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