FindFace is an app that will screen everyone

The new FindFace application, developed in Russia, can list all the profiles of the photographed person in social networks and on the websites of state institutions. It is said to be 70% effective and can even capture faces in crowd shots. He breaks popularity records in Russia.

The authors of the application are 26-year-old Artem Kucharenko and 29-year-old Alexander Kabakov. FindFace application created to facilitate the establishment of contacts and appointments, it is now used, including by the Russian police. A program that can search a billion photos per second is controversial and a big concern for privacy advocates, even though it remains completely legal.

The operation of the program is very simple. Just take a photo of someone's face and put it in the app.. In a second, it will compare the photo with a billion others posted on more than 200 million accounts on the popular Russian social network VKontakte. The system produces one result that seems most likely, and ten more similar ones.