3 ms·

But only if you published your photos in public. If you dont spread your photos around the web you still safe in crowd.

mikewilliams 10y ago
Findface can't identify you, who are you, why are you walking past my house? I have never seen you before, I'm going to call the police, you're acting strange.
- Dolores12 10y ago
  Do you expect police to come every time you see a stranger?
  - EliRivers 10y ago
    I can imagine things getting to the stage where someone not being findable on the face register is considered suspicious enough for police attention.
    - Dolores12 10y ago
      Being recognized by police and being recognized by random John Doe are different things.
      - EliRivers 10y ago
        They won't be.
  - pjc50 10y ago
    This was how the Trayvon Martin shooting started: Zimmerman saw someone "suspicious" in his neighborhood and decided to confront him.
dagw 10y ago
If you have a passport or drivers licens then the government, and thus the police, already have your picture.
dagw 10y ago
There are all kinds of ways your picture can end up on the web without you putting it there. Perhaps you where at an event where pictures where taken and uploaded to Facebook. Perhaps your company has an employee profiles page. Perhaps you where photographed for your local newspaper a few years ago when you did that things. Saying "I haven't spread my photos thus they don't exist" is extremely naive.
kardos 10y ago
Nope, your lifelong discipline of not publishing a single self-photo online will be undone by someone else who snaps a photo of you and posts it online.
skoczymroczny 10y ago
Your picture might already be on the internet. Your friends may have uploaded a picture from a party or school reunion on Facebook. And since Facebook nagged them and they thought it'd be cool to tag you on the picture even though you don't have a Facebook account.
mtgx 10y ago
What if retail stores take your picture and then match it against your credit card at POS and then automatically identify you in the future as well? I can't imagine this is too far off, if it's not already happening.
progman 10y ago
I think exactly the opposite is true. "Personal spamming" will probably help you. Spread your photo as much as possible, all with different names and profiles :-)
dingaling 10y ago
I have a colleague / acquaintance who worked laboriously to prevent photos of himself being put online. He avoided all social media, tried to duck out of group photos and used pseudodyms for fora. Searching for him only returned photos of other people sharing his name. Then one day last year he attended an open-day about retraining IT professionals as teachers. He didn't read the small print closely enough and photos taken at the event were published and studiously tagged by the event organisers. There he was, bubbling up on Google Images. Subsequently he contacted the organisers and they did remove the tagging, but it was purely by chance that he had discovered it.

Findface can't identify you, who are you, why are you walking past my house? I have never seen you before, I'm going to call the police, you're acting strange.

Dolores12 10y ago
Do you expect police to come every time you see a stranger?
- EliRivers 10y ago
  I can imagine things getting to the stage where someone not being findable on the face register is considered suspicious enough for police attention.
  - Dolores12 10y ago
    Being recognized by police and being recognized by random John Doe are different things.
    - EliRivers 10y ago
      They won't be.
- pjc50 10y ago
  This was how the Trayvon Martin shooting started: Zimmerman saw someone "suspicious" in his neighborhood and decided to confront him.

dagw 10y ago

If you have a passport or drivers licens then the government, and thus the police, already have your picture.

dagw 10y ago

There are all kinds of ways your picture can end up on the web without you putting it there. Perhaps you where at an event where pictures where taken and uploaded to Facebook. Perhaps your company has an employee profiles page. Perhaps you where photographed for your local newspaper a few years ago when you did that things. Saying "I haven't spread my photos thus they don't exist" is extremely naive.

kardos 10y ago

Nope, your lifelong discipline of not publishing a single self-photo online will be undone by someone else who snaps a photo of you and posts it online.

skoczymroczny 10y ago

Your picture might already be on the internet. Your friends may have uploaded a picture from a party or school reunion on Facebook. And since Facebook nagged them and they thought it'd be cool to tag you on the picture even though you don't have a Facebook account.

mtgx 10y ago

What if retail stores take your picture and then match it against your credit card at POS and then automatically identify you in the future as well? I can't imagine this is too far off, if it's not already happening.

progman 10y ago

I think exactly the opposite is true. "Personal spamming" will probably help you. Spread your photo as much as possible, all with different names and profiles :-)

dingaling 10y ago

I have a colleague / acquaintance who worked laboriously to prevent photos of himself being put online. He avoided all social media, tried to duck out of group photos and used pseudodyms for fora. Searching for him only returned photos of other people sharing his name. Then one day last year he attended an open-day about retraining IT professionals as teachers. He didn't read the small print closely enough and photos taken at the event were published and studiously tagged by the event organisers. There he was, bubbling up on Google Images. Subsequently he contacted the organisers and they did remove the tagging, but it was purely by chance that he had discovered it.