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Imagine strolling down a busy city street and snapping a photo of a stranger then uploading it into a search engine that almost instantaneously helps you identify the person.

This isn't a hypothetical. It's possible now, thanks to a website called PimEyes, considered one of the most powerful publicly available facial recognition tools online.

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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Government's already have this tech, it's not a secret or even very complicated it just takes some really beefy hardware (or a lot of time). The FBI used it to identify people in the capitol attack.

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah I’m sure they’ve had for decades. Not saying it’s not out there, just that it’s a bit disingenuous to say Google doesn’t employ and even sell the service.

It makes it seem like Google locked it away like some Akira project.