Tuesday, 2 May 2017

Good intentions that might lead to hell: 40,000 profile pics scraped from Tinder for AI experiment

There are numerous privacy concerns about online dating and there are many good reasons behind them. A recent event gives us a great example and makes us wonder if pictures posted to Tinder and other similar platforms are as secure as we are used to believe. Because, as TechCrunch reports, a user of the machine-learning platform Kaggle downloaded 40,000 selfies posted on the dating platform … and it was a piece of cake.

This act is a typical example of good intentions that might pave the road to hell. The report says Stuart Colianni snatched the people’s profile photos from Tinder, with ...

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