SurveillanceHigh
Facial Recognition Service Abused to Target Russian Porn Actresses
- Occurred
- Apr 9, 2016
- Published
- Apr 22, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The facial recognition software FindFace allowing its users to match photos to people’s social media pages on Vkontakte was reportedly abused to de-anonymize and harass Russian women who appeared in pornography and alleged sex workers.
Developers
- NtechLab
Deployers
- NtechLab
Harmed parties
- Russian pornographic actresses
- Russian sex workers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition technology was weaponized to de-anonymize and harass individuals, constituting a serious privacy and safety violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8