It's no coincidence. The Atlantic's "In Focus" blog is run by the same person who created The Boston Globe's "Big Picture" blog.

Here's his personal site: http://www.kokogiak.com/index.php

I don't think it's very true at all. From what I've read, PhotoDNA is used to detect child pornography by comparing a photograph's "hash" against a database of hashes for known pornographic images. There's no facial recognition involved.

More here:

https://qht.co/item?id=2564235