Finding people using Facial Recognition and Social media accounts.
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Nowadays very easy via google search or some provides have extra service where name/address on phone bill show up on when you call/text.. my buddy had this with t-mobile and would show me when girls would call him their full name/address shows up
years back I made the rookie mistake by using actual phone number… as I texted, girl addressed me with name on my phone bill which was different than one I gave her.. quickly realized she probably had same service
just use burner or text app with these grls, makes things much easier
years back I made the rookie mistake by using actual phone number… as I texted, girl addressed me with name on my phone bill which was different than one I gave her.. quickly realized she probably had same service
just use burner or text app with these grls, makes things much easier
For me once you have my name you can easily find my cell and vice verse. Getting my name was the problem, from there they have my linked-in, facebook, was able to find my wife's facebook etc etc.
The pictures that showed my face were the problem and what led them to everything. Some people have less exposure to that if your picture is posted nowhere.
I didn't get a yeah or nay from mods, so I will give you clues to what I am talking about that would lead you to find the software easily. Mods, please delete if you don't want this here. Do a google search for facial recognition picture search. It is normally one of the first 3 and begins with a Pi
The pictures that showed my face were the problem and what led them to everything. Some people have less exposure to that if your picture is posted nowhere.
I didn't get a yeah or nay from mods, so I will give you clues to what I am talking about that would lead you to find the software easily. Mods, please delete if you don't want this here. Do a google search for facial recognition picture search. It is normally one of the first 3 and begins with a Pi
Just found this on Google
Configure from the My Verizon App
Configure from the My Verizon App
- Open the. My Verizon app. .
- Tap the. Account tab. (at the bottom). ...
- Manage device. below the appropriate mobile number. If necessary, tap. ...
- From the 'Preferences' section, tap. Share Name ID. .
- Edit the name then tap (check) I accept the Terms and Conditions. .
- Update. .
I have Verizon also. I just made a test call to my land line and the # came up on caller ID below the only "name" that came up which was WIRELESS CALLER
I don't know what comes up when I call using my burner as I never call my land line or my cell using it. Also no name is assigned to my burner as I bought it for cash. It's been many years since I got it but perhaps I put in a bogus name when I registered it?
I don't know what comes up when I call using my burner as I never call my land line or my cell using it. Also no name is assigned to my burner as I bought it for cash. It's been many years since I got it but perhaps I put in a bogus name when I registered it?
How im-in-this-photo-and-i-dont-like-it was invented. Having your photo online is one thing,
but having your face tagged with your name, in a solo photo or in a group photo, is much worse wrt
training visual search engines. Group photos also greatly narrow down your likely circles of relatives,
friends, and co-workers, taking you from being 1 in 8 billion people alive to being a likely/maybe 1 in 80.
but having your face tagged with your name, in a solo photo or in a group photo, is much worse wrt
training visual search engines. Group photos also greatly narrow down your likely circles of relatives,
friends, and co-workers, taking you from being 1 in 8 billion people alive to being a likely/maybe 1 in 80.
@billyS you may find the info below helpful.
I don't have a verizon app on my phone.
My verizon account is very old from my business (it is a business account kept after I sold the business and I have some family members on it - comes out to around $30 each which is why I never gave it up.)
Anyway, when I went to the account just now and selected my # under the section:
What User ID changes do you want to make today?
It comes up with:
Wireless number User name Current user ID New user ID
Where
Wireless number is my #
User name is my real name
Current user ID is blank (as in actual blank spaces)
New user ID is an edit box when I can input what I want ( I guess) to be what shows up in Caller ID when call someone
I don't have a verizon app on my phone.
My verizon account is very old from my business (it is a business account kept after I sold the business and I have some family members on it - comes out to around $30 each which is why I never gave it up.)
Anyway, when I went to the account just now and selected my # under the section:
What User ID changes do you want to make today?
It comes up with:
Wireless number User name Current user ID New user ID
Where
Wireless number is my #
User name is my real name
Current user ID is blank (as in actual blank spaces)
New user ID is an edit box when I can input what I want ( I guess) to be what shows up in Caller ID when call someone
Thank you again for the heads up and the details, and Billy for moving the thread. So you got all this with the Open plan? I've been meaning to research something like this for years but never got around to it, not just because of SA etc (I'n not worried about an SO per se so no direct major concern there but possible remotely indirect for my work) but some curious discussions I've had with friends about this kind of thing especially as related to FB.
Related potential concern: Does anybody know what the recognition site does with the info you provide it and what it tells you? How do we know that's "secure"/"safe"/w/e?
Related potential concern: Does anybody know what the recognition site does with the info you provide it and what it tells you? How do we know that's "secure"/"safe"/w/e?
The one I tested is called Primeyes. You can also do a few free searches per day if you want to test it. If you get a couple of decent pictures you can find a lot. Sometimes, you then have to search a picture that comes back in a search, save it and use it as additional inputs. You can also do traditional reverse image searches in say Google with the additional pictures as most girls also know to use unique pictures on SA or other sites.
I didn't spend the money to do deep searches, but it found me in a second using the pics I had posted to SA.
I didn't spend the money to do deep searches, but it found me in a second using the pics I had posted to SA.
From your point of view the match of a "dude who looks only vaguely like me" is because what your mind uses to recognize faces is different from how F R algorithms work.
The F R algorithms look at geometric ratios such as involving pupil spacing, relation of that to tip of nose, corners mouth and eyes (among other things) to create a face template (see box 4 below). There is no other way to do it in order reduce the amount of data stored and to avoid interfering complications such as beards, mustaches, etc, that can be changed.
So the " dude" that F R found has the same ratios as you. So the process was successful as it did come back with a match for you. You then discriminated between your pic and the "dude" using methods used by your brain.
Just think if this was used by LE to find you — they would search maybe millions of faces and greatly reduce the number that would have to be investigated further by human investigators to just 2 faces.
BTW, notice that when google street view captures people on the sidewalk (or wherever) it purposely blurs the faces to obfuscate the geometric features needed by F R.
The F R algorithms look at geometric ratios such as involving pupil spacing, relation of that to tip of nose, corners mouth and eyes (among other things) to create a face template (see box 4 below). There is no other way to do it in order reduce the amount of data stored and to avoid interfering complications such as beards, mustaches, etc, that can be changed.
So the " dude" that F R found has the same ratios as you. So the process was successful as it did come back with a match for you. You then discriminated between your pic and the "dude" using methods used by your brain.
Just think if this was used by LE to find you — they would search maybe millions of faces and greatly reduce the number that would have to be investigated further by human investigators to just 2 faces.
BTW, notice that when google street view captures people on the sidewalk (or wherever) it purposely blurs the faces to obfuscate the geometric features needed by F R.