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I have listened to Digital Planet for many years and have even been for a drink with the presenters at a live show. It is a programme on the BBC World Service that covers technology from all over the globe. I often hear stories I would not have encountered elsewhere. On last week's show I learned about a service called Pimeyes.

This site will search the internet for images matching a face you supply. There intention is that you use it to see where images of you have been used, but there is nothing to stop you looking for anyone you have a photo of.

I let the site use my webcam to take a picture and it quickly came up with a series of images that are definitely me. That is a pretty good hit rate, so their machine learning algorithms seem to be good.

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It only shows you part of each URL and you have to pay to get the full details. Some are from Steem/Hive, but I am not sure about some of the others.

It found some 'lower score results' of which only two are me, but getting a different view of my head is clever. My glasses are quite distinctive and it may have picked up on them.

Lower score results

Premium access ranges from $30 to $300 per month. I am not sure what a business use for this might be. Would it be used to vet job applicants or to track criminals? The radio programme mentioned stalking and that could be possible. They said something about it not looking into social sites, but Hive does not seem to be on their list. This article has more details.

The company started off in Poland, but are now registed in the Seychelles.

It is obvious that this sort of technology is improving all the time. I am sure intelligence services have their own versions to track people. This could be used with surveillance camera that are everywhere these days. It is scary, but is something we have to take account of in our lives now. The genie cannot be put pack into the bottle.

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Thats pretty cool, it used a grainy webcam image of me and found loads of me!

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It's a little scary to see just how good it is.

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Yeah, I can't really think of a constructive use of this software. It all seems pretty creeper to me. It would be interesting to see who actually pays for the service.

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I assume they must have paying customers. It seems the business was sold at some point, so someone did well from it.

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a great idea to use this tool would be, if other people use images of your property and you do not want this on the internet, the work of finding them is much easier and it is very good for companies, so they can check if their images of their digital products have reached the internet without permission.

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Well this tool seems to only be designed to recognise faces. Google image search can be good at finding other things. I have found that works for finding different pictures of the same location.

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Is that all??? :D

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Ah ah that's not enough ?! 😇😛 Maybe there is more to come @steevc... That depends on you 😊👍
Happy buzzy week BTW!

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I can't really complain as I do pretty well. Mind you, the hourly rate may be low.

Have a good one!

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As you say so !BEER and CHEERS! 🍻

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Wow another way to get and catch a criminal act. Very cool

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It had to happen. Its frightening that software like this is available to to the masses and look, it even outed you as a former Porn Star!

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Or maybe not former, who knows but in all seriousness, mistakes could easily have deadly circumstances especially if combined with other image manipulation software etc. Scary as hell.

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That's not me :) We are taking risks by putting lots of selfies online. Some people do it all the time, but thankfully my kids are less into that than others. With the 'deepfake' technology all sorts of dodgy stuff is possible and people are just giving away the data to do it.

!ENGAGE 10

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That's not me
I know, but the point is that it came up in a search of you, and it does look a little like you and mistakes can be made if someone else did the search who doesn't see you normally on Hive as we do.
THIS is the frightening part!

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Mis-identifying people could be a big problem if we rely on technology too much. If could get you into trouble.

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I really do not know how effective this would be without including social media. WE all know that most identity thefts are associated with social media. If I will be paying $30 for prem sub, it should be searching even my closet.

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The algorithms have a massive set of data out there to learn from. They can find lots of pictures of a given person on social media. I know some companies have mined this.

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