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<ul><li><keyword id="14058613" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="pimeyes" source="Orion">PimEyes</keyword> offers paid and free service that finds photos of a person from across the internet.</li><li>The company uses AI and reverse image search technology.</li><li>The real founder of PimEyes chooses to remain anonymous.</li></ul>A facial recognition tool, PimEyes is making easy to find pictures of people across the internet. The company has incorporated facial recognition technology into a search engine along with reverse image search technology to analyse and find similar images. The PimEyes was designed back in 2017 and its new owner is Giorgi Gobronidze as the original founder wished to remain anonymous. Gobronidze is a 34-year-old academic whose interest lies in advanced technology. He tends to believe that PimEyes can be a promising tool that will help people to keep tabs on their online reputation. It takes a few seconds for PimEyes to get results. According to<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/technology/pimeyes-facial-recognition-search.html"> New York Times</a>, they used PimEyes on a dozen of journalists with their consent and it found photos of every journalist even that had never seen. The results of journalists wearing sunglasses and masks also came 100% correct. PimEyes also found the photo of a girl who was crying after being proposed to. Photographer used her photo to advertise his business on Yelp. Unlike <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/controversial-facial-recognition-company-clearview-ai-banned-from-selling-to-private-us-businesses/articleshow/91453094.cms">Clearview AI</a>, PimEyes does not include images from social media instead it uses news, articles, review sites, blogs and pornography sites. How to find all your photos on the internet using PimEyes? According to the company, PimEyes is a multi-purpose tool which uses the latest technology, machine learning, reverse image search and artificial intelligence to find pictures on the internet. In order to use it, open the <a href="https://pimeyes.com/en">PimEyes website</a> and you will see a search section with an ‘Upload a photo’ option. Click on the camera icon to upload an image, once uploaded click on search. The search process will take a few seconds as it uses blogs, news, company websites, and much more before showing results. Note that the service is not completely free. In order to get a deeper insight into the search, you need to subscribe it by choosing between one month and annual subscription plans starting from $29.99. As a subscriber, you can narrow down the search by using filters. Additional, you will get access to sources of images and share the results by using URLs. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/united-states-looking-at-nuclear-powered-spacecraft-in-space-by-2027/articleshow/91882813.cms">After banning destructive satellite tests, US plans to use nuclear power systems in space</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/after-putting-the-44-billion-twitter-deal-on-hold-musk-opens-a-motivational-class-on-twitter/articleshow/91885669.cms">After putting the $44 billion Twitter deal on hold, Musk opens a motivational class on Twitter</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Five Illinois residents are suing Pimeyes.</li><li>The plaintiffs say the state's privacy law by including them in search results.</li></ul>A group of five Illinois residents is suing Pimeyes, which offers a publicly available facial recognition tool, under the state's privacy law. They say the company violated their privacy by collecting and using their photos in face search results.The lawsuit alleges "intentional or reckless" violations of their privacy.They are also asking for Pimeyes to change its practices going forward to comply with Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The 2008 law makes it illegal for companies to collect or store data, including data about Illinois residents' faces, without their consent.The complaint, filed in the Madison County Third Judicial Circuit Court, claims that when Pimeyes made photos and information of the residents available in search results, allowing unauthorized people to view and use them, the company caused "great and irreparable injury." The complaint doesn't detail specific incidents of harm.Pimeyes acts as a search engine that uses an input picture to locate other pictures of that person online. It can be used as a digital hygiene tool for yourself, or as a weapon for stalkers. People have used Pimeyes to stalk and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.404media.co/the-end-of-privacy-is-a-taylor-swift-fan-tiktok-account-armed-with-facial-recognition-tech/">unmask the identities of strangers</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wired.com/story/kashmir-hill-privacy-surveillance-facial-recognition/">porn actors</a>. They've also used it to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wired.com/story/kashmir-hill-privacy-surveillance-facial-recognition/">surface compromising images</a> of targeted individuals. Cher Scarlett, one critic of the company, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/technology/pimeyes-facial-recognition-search.html">tested Pimeyes on herself</a> and found images from a years-old pornography audition that she soon regretted. In October, the company started <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/technology/pimeyes-blocks-searches-childrens-faces.html">blocking images of children</a> in search results, fearing nefarious use cases.Multiple tech companies have been sued under BIPA and been forced to make major settlements and concessions. In 2020, Meta (then still called Facebook) <a target="_blank" href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/01/facebook-illinois-class-action-bipa/">paid $650 million to settle</a> a class action BIPA lawsuit that alleged its automatic face-tagging system, powered by facial recognition, violated the law. The facial recognition company Clearview AI, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html">known for making a database</a> from billions of scraped photos from the open web, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/big-win-settlement-ensures-clearview-ai-complies-with-groundbreaking-illinois">settled a BIPA lawsuit in 2022</a>. It escaped paying millions in fines, but had to agree to remove Illinois residents from its database and to restrict businesses and private actors from using its database (though Clearview can sell other products to private customers).The Pimeyes complaint, which seeks $15,000 for each victim harmed, names the company, its Polish cofounders Lucasz Kowalczyk and Denis Tatina, and its current CEO Giorgi Gobronidze as defendants. It also names EMEARobotics and Carribex LTD, companies Gobronidze registered in Dubai and Belize while acquiring Pimeyes in 2021.The case also names "Public Mirror," a company that appears to have been founded by Kowalczyk and Tatina in 2020, shortly before they sold Pimeyes. The company, which advertised itself as the <a target="_blank" href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/public-mirror-implements-algorithm-face-185100059.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAh5hmNe3sVIEewkzylRaZfcDSmwGWjL9yG3vdz7aqLEkWecYw9kj3W4RQhwDFQklalCLuoDDt_6Lbhu-8_d3XVQUE0fc3QWJAc5lHdClQinSLLFknFwIi_VEat5OkbzCIRtdOo_O0mnYhGK_HGtqMCzSJs6S1C3sB6yrMINHXUe">"next generation of media monitoring,"</a> had almost identical features to Pimeyes, but it also allowed users to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbRvAqW9mj8">get email notifications</a> about each new time a face appeared on the internet.Unlike Pimeyes, which allows users to search for anyone's face, Public Mirror asked that users only searched for their own face. To do so, it asked users to verify their identities by uploading three photos of themselves at different angles before searching. Similar systems <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwCNG9KFdXs">have been bypassed</a> using methods such as 3D printing. The company <a target="_blank" href="https://rejestr.io/krs/855054/public-mirror">dissolved and began liquidation</a> in May 2023, according to a Polish business registry, but public documents don't indicate what led to its dissolution.Kowalczyk and Tatina went on to found Expertum LTD, which sells a facial recognition algorithm to clients without a facial recognition database. Several former Public Mirror employees appear to have joined Expertum LTD, according to their LinkedIn profiles.The Pimeyes lawsuit in Illinois had a hearing on Wednesday. The lead attorney on the case, Brandon Wise, told Business Insider that Pimeyes has not been officially served yet. The Wednesday hearing focused on updates of the attempts to serve papers to the Pimeyes-related business entities around the world, which has to be done in that country and in its native language.Kowalczyk and Tatina did not respond for comment. Reached by email, Gobronidze said Business Insider's request for comment was the first time he had heard of the lawsuit."Unfortunately I have absolutely no information related to the lawsuit, I have read it in your email for the first time and honestly I am [a] bit surprised," Gobronidze said in an email to Business Insider. "I will hesitate to give any official comment, till we receive any official information related to the lawsuit."The complaint argues that under BIPA, Pimeyes did not obtain permission from Illinois residents before collecting and storing their information.Pimeyes notes on its website that its database doesn't contain photos, but "faceprints" of photos. "Faceprints," sometimes called "facial geometry," refers to the data derived from a face photo, such as the distances between different parts of the face. Facial recognition systems identify people by making matches between those mathematical measurements.However, under BIPA, both photos of a person's face and facial geometry data from a picture are protected as biometric information.Wise told Business Insider that he believes Pimeyes exemplifies "a pretty clear violation" of BIPA. He added that there's an additional risk because Pimeyes, whose headquarters is in the country Georgia, is not based in the US."Especially when it's a foreign company, we don't know who has access to this data, what's going on, how it's being used," he said.

Facial recognition tool Pimeyes — which has been used to unmask pornstars and stalk people — is sued by 5 Illinois residents for 'irreparable injury'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A <keyword id="11894211" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="police" source="Orion">police</keyword> officer that leads workshops across the US has advised cops use <keyword id="12320770" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="facial-recognition" source="Orion">facial recognition</keyword> at traffic stops.</li><li>Thousands of police have taken this officer's course on using social media or other tools to identify people.</li></ul>An instructor for the influential police workshop company Street Cop Training has advised <keyword id="11899820" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="law" source="Orion">law</keyword> enforcement to use facial recognition at traffic stops in order to find out a person's identity and if they have a warrant out for their arrest, even if it's unclear whether that person committed a crime.The recommendation, made during a podcast intended for police and hosted by members of the training organization, shows how controversial uses of facial recognition and social media can make their ways into conventional forms of <keyword id="11911207" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="policing" source="Orion">policing</keyword>, and the often murky legal applications of their use. It also calls into question how new technology may be used to sidestep otherwise barred policing methods. For example, the landmark 1968 <keyword id="11893011" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="supreme-court" source="Orion">Supreme Court</keyword> case Terry v. Ohio ruled that police must have "reasonable suspicion" that a person might have committed a crime before they can compel that person to identify themselves. Due to that ruling, it may not be lawful for to police use facial recognition software to compel identity without having reasonable suspicion first.The instructor, Nick Jerman, has taught thousands of police officers around the country how to do social media investigations through Street Cop Training. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/police-trained-create-fake-social-media-accounts-using-ai-images-2022-1">Insider previously reported</a> that he has advised police to make fake social-media accounts for work using AI-generated profile images, violating some rules on platforms like Facebook. Jerman <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/police-trained-create-fake-social-media-accounts-using-ai-images-2022-1">has also encouraged</a> using these social-media investigative methods to gather information about "hot" women in order to lie to and manipulate them.Jerman is a detective for Maryland's Montgomery County, where <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/police-trained-create-fake-social-media-accounts-using-ai-images-2022-1">he is facing an internal investigation</a> after Insider asked the county police department to comment on rape jokes Jerman made on his personal Twitter account and Trayvon Martin jokes he made on his personal Tumblr account.In a <a href="https://streetcoptraining.com/captivate-podcast/social-media-and-online-tactics-feat-nick-jerman/">July 2021 episode</a> of the Street Cop Podcast with Dennis Benigno, the company's founder, Jerman encouraged using facial recognition software to determine the identity of the person pulled over. The Street Cop Podcast is advertised as "The training that cops deserve" and, along with Street Cop Training's other programs, is marketed to active-duty police."Let's say you're on a <keyword id="12320469" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="traffic-stop" source="Orion">traffic stop</keyword> and we have someone in the car that we suspect may be wanted," Benigno asked during the episode. "What do we do in that situation?""Well there's a couple of paid programs you can use where you can take their picture, and it'll put it in," Jerman said, referring to facial recognition tools, before recommending "another one called PimEyes you can use." PimEyes is a free, public-facing facial-recognition search engine.Those recommendations would not be legal if the police don't have reasonable suspicion that the person pulled over has committed a crime, according to Greg Nojeim, senior counsel and co-director of the Security and Surveillance Project at the Center for Democracy &amp; Technology. In Benigno and Jerman's example, it's unclear if this is the case or not. Benigno and Jerman did not respond to Insider's requests for comment.Jerman teaches police departments around the country about how they can use social media and facial recognition technology.Insider obtained a document called "<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21195743-street_cop_training_-_social_media_and_osint_bookmar_1srosjhetcpr8dzq5mjm8wru7lctysfjq1aoxbge_u14docx?responsive=1&amp;title=1">Street Cop Training Social Media and OSINT Bookmarks</a>" through a public-records request filed with the Maryland State Police. The document, which lists resources from Jerman's social-media investigation course, includes facial recognition tools. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21195743-street_cop_training_-_social_media_and_osint_bookmar_1srosjhetcpr8dzq5mjm8wru7lctysfjq1aoxbge_u14docx?responsive=1&amp;title=1">The document</a> lists PimEyes, which Jerman mentioned on the podcast. It also lists Clearview AI, a facial recognition tool that tries to match faces with billions of images the company scraped from social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Police have to pay to use Clearview AI long-term, though the company does offer <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facial-recognition-local-police-clearview-ai-table">30-day free trials</a>.<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21195743-street_cop_training_-_social_media_and_osint_bookmar_1srosjhetcpr8dzq5mjm8wru7lctysfjq1aoxbge_u14docx?responsive=1&amp;title=1">It also lists</a> Thorn Spotlight, a facial-recognition tool for finding victims of child sex trafficking, and FacePlusPlus, another facial recognition tool.Jerman and Benigno also discussed another scenario on the July 2021 podcast: An officer pulls someone over on a traffic stop, but the officer can't compel the person to show their identification. Based on the Terry v. Ohio ruling, this probably means the officers don't have reasonable suspicion."How about, you're in a situation where you can't compel ID and before you even ask you're like there's something not right with this guy and he's gonna lie," Benigno said.Jerman suggested getting the person's phone number, either by asking the person, or by accusing the person of stealing a phone in the car and asking if they can call the phone in order to exonerate them. "[Say] 'I see that phone in the car, we've had a lot of thefts of phones,' say 'Is that really your phone?' and then you can call it to see if that's the real phone number," Jerman said. "If you can get the phone number from your target, the world is your oyster."Then, Jerman said police should see if there are any social media accounts associated with the phone number. He said they should also use services like Truecaller, which shows the names associated with a phone number by finding how it's labeled in other people's contact lists. (Truecaller gets this information by asking users to share the contacts in their phone.)"A person who gives up their phone number makes a choice," Nojeim, the Center for Democracy and Technology lawyer, told Insider. "I think they should be informed of whether they are obliged to give up their phone number and what the police intend to do with it."Got a tip? Contact this reporter at <a href="mailto:chaskins@insider.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chaskins@insider.com</a> or <a href="mailto:caroline.haskins@protonmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caroline.haskins@protonmail.com</a>, or via secure messaging app Signal at +1 (785) 813-1084. Reach out using a non-work device.

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