[chris_mc]

My big question with face rec is this: what happens when the tech is so good that people can find out the identity of someone whose "special" photos were stolen or shared on the internet? That's going to be a huge deal and will cause huge problems for some people if not handled correctly.

[tdeck]

Already happened: https://mashable.com/2016/05/03/facial-recognition-russia-sh...

[matt4077]

I think society has actually gotten better at this. A strategically leaked sex tape is already an acceptable career move for celebrities, and I don’t think many people would necessary care about it in politics, either.

[chris_mc]

I don't care about the elites, I care about people who are not well known who get exposed due to this technology, or who's endangered because their stalker who happened on their nude stolen photos can now track them in real time.

Celebrities and politicians have money and power to ensure they recover from this event, your sister or wife doesn't.

[tracker1]

I think it's often more about hypocrisy than it is about the act/actions. It seems to, at least from my pov, work out worst for conservative/republican politicians than left leaning ones. Of course when you get bad actors on the left, this also means things are overlooked or forgiven that really shouldn't be.

[matt4077]

Sex tape is to whatever you’re talking about as spending money is to bank robbery.

[terryschiavo22]

Heresy! How dare you insinuate Kim leaked her sex tape solely for publicity!

[forgotmypw9]

In the future, all information will be public, and this will change many things.

[dsfyu404ed]

That doesn't mean a heck of a lot of people won't get screwed over on the way there.

[dredmorbius]

That problem exists now:

https://www.ynotcam.com/2019/04/10/sharesome-launches-findth...

And has for some years:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/findface-...

[drdaeman]

This had already happened. There are quite a lot of online services that run facial recognition and match provided photos against the datasets derived from porn.

[dsfyu404ed]

The tech is nowhere near as good as humans are. It's just leveraging the fact that computers can search through a much bigger data set. It's going to take a long time before it gets better than humans considering the fact that progress generally plateaus.

[skybrian]

Another meme from cryptography: attacks only get easier; they don't get harder.

While both are true, they aren't any help at predicting the level at which progress plateaus.