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by possibility 3720 days ago
I think that posting the pictures online like that is actually what's creepy. The matching almost has nothing to do with it. For instance, if he just had the subway photos, or he just had the profile pictures, it would give me a creepy feeling. It feels like an invasion of privacy. Here we even have laws that say you cannot publish someone's picture without their consent. Russia does too.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_...

Additionally he quite likely doesn't have permission to post the profile pictures due to copyright.

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Ah yes, I agree. Posting someone's photo without permission feels totally wrong to me too.