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PimEyes - A Polish company just abolishes our anonymity
Research by netzpolitik.org shows the potential for abuse of PimEyes, a free search engine for 900 million faces. All of whom have photos on the Internet could already be part of their database.
Dylan smiles into the camera, arm in arm with the other guests of a queer boat party. Behind them, glasses glisten on the shelves of a bar. Eight years ago a party photographer uploaded this snapshot on the internet. Dylan had already forgotten it - until today. Because with a reverse search engine for faces, everyone can find this old party photo of Dylan. All they have to do is upload his profile picture from the Xing career network, free of charge and without registration. But Dylan wants to keep his private and professional life separate: During the day he works as a banker in Frankfurt am Main.
The name of the search engine is PimEyes. It analyses masses of faces on the Internet for individual characteristics and stores the biometric data. When Dylan tests the search engine with his profile picture, it compares it with the database and delivers similar faces as a result, shows a preview picture and the domain where the picture was found. Dylan was recognized even though, unlike today, he did not even have a beard then.
Our research shows: PimEyes is a wholesale attack on anonymity and possibly illegal. A snapshot may be enough to identify a stranger using PimEyes. The search engine does not directly provide the name of a person you are looking for. But if it finds matching faces, in many cases the displayed websites can be used to find out name, profession and much more.
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 PimEyes - A Polish company just abolishes our anonymity
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/pimeyes-face-search-company-is-abolishing-our-anonymity/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪: https://netzpolitik.org/2020/gesichter-suchmaschine-pimeyes-schafft-anonymitaet-ab/
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53007510
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 https://petapixel.com/2020/06/11/this-creepy-face-search-engine-scours-the-web-for-photos-of-anyone/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 Automated face recognition -
Enforce our data protection rights at last!
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/automatisierte-gesichtserkennung-setzt-unsere-datenschutzrechte-endlich-auch-durch/
#PimEyes #facialrecognition #searchengine #privacy #anonymity #ourdata #thinkabout
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
📡@NoGoolag
Research by netzpolitik.org shows the potential for abuse of PimEyes, a free search engine for 900 million faces. All of whom have photos on the Internet could already be part of their database.
Dylan smiles into the camera, arm in arm with the other guests of a queer boat party. Behind them, glasses glisten on the shelves of a bar. Eight years ago a party photographer uploaded this snapshot on the internet. Dylan had already forgotten it - until today. Because with a reverse search engine for faces, everyone can find this old party photo of Dylan. All they have to do is upload his profile picture from the Xing career network, free of charge and without registration. But Dylan wants to keep his private and professional life separate: During the day he works as a banker in Frankfurt am Main.
The name of the search engine is PimEyes. It analyses masses of faces on the Internet for individual characteristics and stores the biometric data. When Dylan tests the search engine with his profile picture, it compares it with the database and delivers similar faces as a result, shows a preview picture and the domain where the picture was found. Dylan was recognized even though, unlike today, he did not even have a beard then.
Our research shows: PimEyes is a wholesale attack on anonymity and possibly illegal. A snapshot may be enough to identify a stranger using PimEyes. The search engine does not directly provide the name of a person you are looking for. But if it finds matching faces, in many cases the displayed websites can be used to find out name, profession and much more.
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 PimEyes - A Polish company just abolishes our anonymity
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/pimeyes-face-search-company-is-abolishing-our-anonymity/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪: https://netzpolitik.org/2020/gesichter-suchmaschine-pimeyes-schafft-anonymitaet-ab/
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53007510
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 https://petapixel.com/2020/06/11/this-creepy-face-search-engine-scours-the-web-for-photos-of-anyone/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 Automated face recognition -
Enforce our data protection rights at last!
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/automatisierte-gesichtserkennung-setzt-unsere-datenschutzrechte-endlich-auch-durch/
#PimEyes #facialrecognition #searchengine #privacy #anonymity #ourdata #thinkabout
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
📡@NoGoolag
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PimEyes: A Polish company is abolishing our anonymity
An investigation by netzpolitik.org shows the potential for abuse of PimEyes, a free search engine for 900 million faces. Whoever’s photos have been published on the Internet could already be part of their database.