Controversial Facial Recognition Site Claims to Help Users While Raising Privacy Concerns
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PimEyes is a controversial facial recognition site that can find every photo of a person on the internet if you upload one image of them. It charges up to $299/month.
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It claims its purpose is to help people "reclaim image rights and monitor your online presence," but some believe it enables stalking.
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It uses AI and machine learning to match faces. Users can set up alerts to scrub unwanted images.
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YouTuber Rowan Cheung tested it and found it "disturbingly" accurate and fast for finding photos of a person online.
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PimEyes bans accounts if it detects stalking, but some still criticize the technology as a "stalker’s dream" that compromises privacy.