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Technology to Out Sex Workers

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Two related stories:

PornHub is using machine learning algorithms to identify actors in different videos, so as to better index them. People are worried that it can really identify them, by linking their stage names to their real names.

Facebook somehow managed to link a sex worker’s clients under her fake name to her real profile.

Sometimes people have legitimate reasons for having two identities. That is becoming harder and harder.

Tags: face recognition, Facebook, identification, pornography, privacy

Posted on October 13, 2017 at 6:57 AM45 Comments

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