A face search engine anyone can use is alarmingly accurate

webecedarian · 10 Jun 2022, 10:54 AM

Since many of us here are interestied in privacy issues..

A face search engine anyone can use is alarmingly accurate
By Kashmir Hill

Unlike Clearview AI, a similar facial recognition tool available only to law enforcement, PimEyes does not include results from social media sites. The sometimes surprising images that PimEyes surfaced came instead from news articles, wedding photography pages, review sites, blogs and pornography sites. Most of the matches for the dozen journalists' faces were correct. For the women, the incorrect photos often came from pornography sites, which was unsettling in the suggestion that it could be them. (To be clear, it was not them.)...

"It's stalkerware by design no matter what they say," said Ella Jakubowska, a policy adviser at European Digital Rights, a privacy advocacy group.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/t...on-search.html

https://www.startribune.com/a-face-s...ate/600177603/

https://business-journal.in/technolo...iness-journal/

somdcomputerguy · 10 Jun 2022, 11:22 AM

This is interesting as well.

- bruce

10 Jun 2022, 10:54 AM	#1
webecedarian Essential Contributor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 479	A face search engine anyone can use is alarmingly accurate Since many of us here are interestied in privacy issues.. A face search engine anyone can use is alarmingly accurate By Kashmir Hill Unlike Clearview AI, a similar facial recognition tool available only to law enforcement, PimEyes does not include results from social media sites. The sometimes surprising images that PimEyes surfaced came instead from news articles, wedding photography pages, review sites, blogs and pornography sites. Most of the matches for the dozen journalists' faces were correct. For the women, the incorrect photos often came from pornography sites, which was unsettling in the suggestion that it could be them. (To be clear, it was not them.)... "It's stalkerware by design no matter what they say," said Ella Jakubowska, a policy adviser at European Digital Rights, a privacy advocacy group. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/t...on-search.html https://www.startribune.com/a-face-s...ate/600177603/ https://business-journal.in/technolo...iness-journal/

10 Jun 2022, 11:22 AM	#2
somdcomputerguy Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Rupert, WV Posts: 879	This is interesting as well. - bruce