People who had a very rough year.
Lapland is Finland’s northernmost region bordering Sweden, Norway, Russia and the Baltic Sea. It’s known for its vast subarctic wilderness, ski resorts and natural phenomena including the midnight sun and the Northern Lights. If you plan on taking a trip in winter, Lapland is definitely a place to go.
Egor Tsvetkov created a project called "Your Face is Big Data" to show how powerful facial recognition software has become that it can let a complete stranger to find you in just several clicks of a button. Egor used “FindFace” app to scan strangers on St. Petersburg metro and the results are quite worrisome. He found without any difficulty those people’s social media profiles. He said, “My project is a clear illustration of the future that awaits us if we continue to disclose as much about ourselves on the internet as we do now.”
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