Photoproject YOUR FACE IS BIG DATA: forget about anonymity

With modern advances in technology, you can forget about anonymity: to identify a person on a photo or video and to find traces of his stay in the network can be anyone. Just about this Photographer Yegor Tsvetkov projectWho was shooting random passengers in the subway, and then find their profiles in social networks.

Photographer Yegor Tsvetkov pictures of people sitting in front of the subway, and then find their profiles "VKontakte" and compared the image of a real person with how he is revealed in social networks.

Advances in technology takes away from the monopoly of the power structures in the human identification for photo / video, and conveys the opportunity literally to anyone interested. Unaware of this, people continue to adhere to the usual behavior patterns, closing to the public and opening up the social networks.

Egor Tsvetkov, photographer

The project YOUR FACE IS BIG DATA Egor Tsvetkov use the service FindFace: It allows you to find the stranger, just photographed it on the phone. FindFace detects faces using a neural network, using all laid out in the open access photos on the social network "VKontakte". The program detects about 70% of young people.

The ability to quickly search for the anonymous man pages in the social network in seconds converts impersonal object to a close friend.

Egor Tsvetkov, photographer