New Facial Recognition Tool, Designed For Research Purposes, Tracks Targets Across Different Social Networks (theverge.com) 42
Researchers at Trustwave on Wednesday released a new open-source tool called Social Mapper, which uses facial recognition to track subjects across social media networks. Designed for security researchers performing social engineering attacks, the system automatically locates profiles on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other networks based on a name and picture. Unlike tools such as Geofeedia that require access to certain APIs, Social Mapper performs automated manual searches in an instrumented browser window. The Verge: Those searches can already be performed manually, but the automated process means it can be performed far faster and for many people at once. "Performing intelligence gathering online is a time-consuming process," Trustwave explained in a post this morning. "What if it could be automated and done on a mass scale with hundreds or thousands of individuals?"
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Excellent (Score:5, Insightful)
This is only going to snowball and eventually become very difficult to opt out of, if there's no meaningful legislation.
I am not holding my breath for that though.
Re: Excellent (Score:1)
I cannot find it in me to care about whatever garbage you typed
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If that were the case, wouldn't Hillary have won.....?
Just once... (Score:4, Insightful)
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What kind of idiot (Score:5, Insightful)
puts their picture in social media? I mean, if you're a sports star or actor, sure, but for everyone else, just stick to pictures of cats and your latest meal.
And if you use the same name in different social media, well derp...
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Tracks targets. Targets are not necessarily users.
So they are tracking my cat ?
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So they are tracking my cat ?
No, the raccoon.
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puts their picture in social media?
Hey stupid, how else would people I barely know see where I am vacationing and what the food I'm eating looks like? And yeah, I need to be in the picture to prove I was there / I ate it.
faccia brutta (Score:2)
Maybe this is why I keep getting Brad Pitt's text messages by accident.
Common tool in the online dating industry (Score:3)
Online dating sites have been using tools like this internally for years to track users' activity on competitors' sites.
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And what would they do with that knowledge? Seems awful hard to act upon.
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Contrary to WA State Constitution and Canada's (Score:3)
let alone the EU GPDR.
Stop doing this stuff.