How would you like it if you some stranger snapped your picture while you were out and about and then used that photo to find out your real name and other information about you?

FindFace facial recognition may not be brand new, but the app boasts of a 70% accuracy as in snap a photo of a stranger and then find out who that person is via their social media profile. For now, it works with VK, which is like a Russian version of Facebook, but it has been downloaded 500,000 times since February and has searched about three million photos.

“With this algorithm, you can search through a billion photographs in less than a second from a normal computer,” FindFace co-founder Alexander Kabakov told The Guardian. Talking about how the app could revolutionize dating, he added:

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