Hacking and art have mixed in a freshly-launched dating website that lets visitors seek mates by sifting through profile pictures "stolen" from Facebook.
Facebook frowned on the site lovely-faces.com, saying that "scraping" or mining information violates the terms of service at the world's leading online social network. Facebook was investigating and vowed to take "appropriate" action.
It boasts Facebook pictures of about 250,000 people searchable in categories that include nationality, gender, funny, smug, and "climber". The creators of the online "dating agency" were identified at the website as artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico. "Our mission was to give all these virtual identities a new shared place to expose themselves freely, breaking Facebook's constraints and boring social rules," the website authors said in an online statement datelined in Berlin. The artists explained that a million "stolen" Facebook profile pictures were analysed using facial recognition software that filtered images by expressions. It appears those in relationships are also listed.
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