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  I loved this story so much, thank you for sharing lol
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  Probably more in the 100s of millions if you take CCTV into account >
  
  100s of millions? that’s a bit of a stretch.. i’d go up to millions maximum. unless you’re talking every frame of a cctv camera is a picture in which case 30 pictures a second IS a lot.. >
  
  If you went by fps as each frame is a picture and depending on your age 100s of millions isn’t that out of the realms of possibility really could be anything between 15-30 frames of your person every second your in a public place so the possibility of over 100000 frames per hour just while in the supermarket. Crazy really >
  
  that’s exactly what i said; if you’re thinking of it that way; 100s of millions isn’t that far out there, definitely achievable. but if you’re just talking about photos i wouldn’t say more than the hundreds of thousands or maybe millions. >
  
  If you work in view of a camera, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for one year, there is 179,712,000 frames of video, assuming the video is recorded at 24 frames a second.
  That's in view of one single camera. 
  Where I work I'm usually seen by 3-4 at all times.
  Terrifying. >
  
  holy crap that’s way more than i was expecting. billions if you’re recorded by multiple cameras throughout that scenario you described. that’s in one year? crazy. >
  
  Pretty sure an ex of mine from like middle school still has a picture of me as his youtube profile >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  An ex of mine probably has pictures of me that I hope I’ll never see! >
  
  i dont have an ex ._. >
  
  Enjoy it while it lasts >
  
  It would be cool/creepy/unnerving if you could do a "global" Google photos search - across every account/picture they have -- for your own face and see what comes back outside of your accounts. >
  
  If this technology does not already exist it is inevitably on the horizon >
  
  For google photos the tech definitely exists.  But of course you cannot access everyone's private photos, it's a matter of policy / security/ privacy for obvious reasons. >
  
  But my uncle works at Nintendo. >
  
  Went to a party once (back in the 90's,so pre digital). It was a friend of a friend, so I knew pretty much no one. The toilet was wall-papered with photos. I was checking them out and then found one of me. Full portrait just starting back at me. This freaked me right out. Went back to living room and said "hey. There's a photo of me in the toilet!". The response was along the lines of: "we've been wondering for months who this guy is and then you just turn up one night! Who are you?" >
  
  And, how did that end?
  You cant leave us hanging like that. >
  
  Sorry. So it turns out that the friend of a friend was friends with a local band.  She was their photographer. Went to check them out with my friend and ended up sitting at a table with the band et al during a break and got my photo taken. I didn't notice it happening at the time. My contribution to the conversation was insufficient for anyone to remember me. The photo turned out to be a good ice breaker at the party and I had a great night. Not good enough to get me laid, but that's life.