Complaint made against PimEyes search engine for faces – BBC
By Chris Vallance
Technology reporter
Privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch has made a complaint against face recognition search engine PimEyes.
PimEyes enables people to look for faces in images which have been posted publicly on the internet.
Big Brother Watch claims it facilitates stalking and has complained to the UK data and privacy watchdog.
But PimEyes’ chief executive Giorgi Gobronidze says it poses fewer risks related to stalking than social media or other search engines.
Mr Gobronidze told the BBC that because PimEyes only searches images posted publicly anyone misusing it “gets only the information available on the open internet”.
Enabling surveillance
Big Brother Watch’s complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) claims that PimEyes has enabled “surveillance and stalking on a scale previously unimaginable”.
Starting with a person’s picture, PimEyes finds other photos of them published online. This could include images on photo-sharing sites, in blog…
The post Complaint made against PimEyes search engine for faces – BBC first appeared on SEO, Marketing and Social News | OneSEOCompany.com.
source: https://news.oneseocompany.com/2022/11/07/complaint-made-against-pimeyes-search-engine-for-faces-bbc_2022110735311.html
Your content is great. However, if any of the content contained herein violates any rights of yours, including those of copyright, please contact us immediately by e-mail at media[@]kissrpr.com.