New emotion reading technology claims to stop agitated criminals and potential terrorists on the street before they act. A Russian firm has created software that can be embedded in CCTV cameras to track the age, gender, emotional state and identity of people and keep track of suspicious behaviour. If someone is feeling particularly stressed or angry the algorithms will flag it up with authorities who could intervene before anything happens. The company claims it can track the emotional state of a person from CCTV with more than 94 per cent accuracy. NTchLab's software, which can be used in CCTV cameras, claims to read people's emotional states and will know if they might be about to do something dangerous (stock image) NTechLab has created a tool that can track the age, gender, emotional state and identity to monitor citizens and keep track of any suspicious behaviour.

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How would you like it if you some stranger snapped your picture and then used that photo to find out your real name, your address and other information about you? If face recognition technology may not be brand new, anonymity in public could soon be a thing of the past. You may never again be just a face in the crowd. FindFace, a new application launched few months ago, by a Russian start-up has the power to identify total strangers on the street from pictures of their faces. It does so by matching the photos against profile pictures from VK --also known as VKontakte--a Russian social networking website like Facebook.

MOSCOW--When Russian clubgoers flocked to the country's biggest electronic music festival this summer, they didn't have to bring a camera or even their phones. Instead, festival organizers used facial-identification technology to pick out revelers and send them their pictures directly to their phone. All they needed to do was opt in, by sending a selfie. The technology is the product of NTechLab, a Moscow-based firm whose algorithm to identify facial features is getting attention in the broader information technology world. NTechLab co-founders Artem Kukharenko and Alexander Kabakov believe the possible uses of their technology are almost endless, and mostly positive: from allowing police to search for criminals in real time, to helping amusement parks identify and sell photos to their guests.

That's the conviction held by Russian entrepreneurs Artem Kukharenko and Alexander Kabakov, whose startup, NTechLab, recently launched a facial recognition app that nearly obliterates the concept of anonymity. Called FindFace, the app has remained exclusive to Russia since going live earlier this year. Soon, though, Kuhkarenko and Kabakov are introducing a cloud-based platform that makes their frighteningly accurate algorithm available to everyone, the pair said in a Skype interview in May. In a practical sense, what this means is that none of us is safe from an always-probing public eye. "In 10 or 20 years, there won't be a place on the earth [where] ... nobody [can] see you," Kabakov said over Skype.

Imagine a world in which you could not walk past someone on the street without them being able to identify you. This is already a reality for some people, thanks to a new website designed in Russia. 'FindFace' uses a new algorithm to identify anyone from their profile picture using only a photograph, with 70 per cent accuracy. 'FindFace' uses a new algorithm to identify anyone from their profile picture using only a photograph, with 70 per cent accuracy. The website works by comparing photographs to profile pictures on Vkontakte - a social network popular in Russia and the former Soviet Union with more than 200 million accounts.

If the founders of a new face recognition app get their way, anonymity in public could soon be a thing of the past. FindFace, launched two months ago and currently taking Russia by storm, allows users to photograph people in a crowd and work out their identities, with 70% reliability. It works by comparing photographs to profile pictures on Vkontakte, a social network popular in Russia and the former Soviet Union, with more than 200 million accounts. In future, the designers imagine a world where people walking past you on the street could find your social network profile by sneaking a photograph of you, and shops, advertisers and the police could pick your face out of crowds and track you down via social networks. In the short time since the launch, Findface has amassed 500,000 users and processed nearly 3m searches, according to its founders, 26-year-old Artem Kukharenko, and 29-year-old Alexander Kabakov.