The same story about Findface project was big news in Russia several years ago. They scraped the whole vk.com (Russian Facebook copycat with almost entire Russi

The same story about Findface project was big news in Russia several years ago. They scraped the whole vk.com (Russian Facebook copycat with almost entire Russian population in it) and applied some very fine ML to find a person by his/her face. 2ch (4chan ancestor) users identified girls from porn and harassed them, outing them to their families and friends using this service. Later company discontinued this service and now sells technology to the Russian government to monitor CCTV footage from Moscow subway. VK kind of fixed data scraping issue (not sure if they actually changed much). Usually Russia copies everything from the west, interesting to see western news follow Russian lead after a few years. Not saying I am proud of mother Russia in this case, just an observation.