Facebook photos swiped for dating website (AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Hacking and prowess mixed on Friday in a freshly-launched dating website that lets visitors seek family by sifting through strikingness pictures mined from Facebook.
Lovely-faces.com boasted Facebook pictures of about 250,000 people searchable in categories that included nationality, gender, funny, smug, and "climber."
The creators of the online "dating agency" were identified at the website as artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovic.
'Our mission was to provide every these realistic identities a newborn mutual locate to expose themselves freely, breaking Facebook's constraints and boring ethnic rules," the website authors said in an online evidence datelined in Berlin.
The artists explained that a meg "stolen" Facebook strikingness pictures were analyzed using facial recognition software that filtered images by expressions.
"Immersing ourselves in the resulting database was a hallucinatory undergo as we dove into hundreds of thousands of strikingness pictures and found ourselves bacchanalian by the long smiles, gazes and often leering expressions," the artists said.
"So we ingrained a newborn website (lovely-faces.com) gift them official and granting them the possibility of presently existence grappling to grappling with anybody who is attracted by their facial countenance and related data."
Facebook frowned on lovely-faces, locution that "scraping" or mining information violates the terms of assist at the world's directive online ethnic network. Facebook was investigating and vowed to verify "appropriate" action.
Ironically, the story of Facebook's genesis tells of its founder Mark Zuckerberg getting in pain for hacking Harvard University computers patch a enrollee to get pictures of coeds for comparability with each other at a website titled "Face Mash" that he created.
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