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Is it really that surprising, since all the photos are available on public sites? It seems this tool reveals the same a Google search for the name would reveal.
by hcarvalhoalves 7y ago
Is it really that surprising, since all the photos are available on public sites? It seems this tool reveals the same a Google search for the name would reveal.
- MikeAmelung 7y agoThis guy's name is Tom Smith. Go ahead and pop that into Google and let me know how that turns out. His name is about as generic as you could imagine for a white person. But they returned a bunch of images of HIM, and one Alexey Something-or-other, which could be his troll account. Edit: the Alexey part is a joke, I'm sorry but I thought it was funny.
- dmix 7y agoTIL generic names (in your geographic region) are good ways to promote privacy. I always wondered how the Chinese authorities figured that out considering the massive name reuse in China. I can’t watch a Chinese movie or TV show without at least one character sharing the surname (the first part in China) of a Chinese person I know. Smith would be our classic version in the west.
- ThrustVectoring 7y agoThe Romani people have used it as a general tool to make it difficult to govern them. The local equivalent of "John Smith" gets used by everybody in every official form. Meanwhile, they just call each other what they otherwise would've.
- gowld 7y agoChina handles it by making you put your national id # or phone # on everything you do.
- RandallBrown 7y agoThe only real concern I see is that it allows someone searching to go from photo to name very quickly.