PimEyes: Extorting Data Subject Rights for Profit
Nothing focuses my rage more like a company trying to extort data subjects. Here's how we can get back at this new wave of data vampires.
Recently, Kashmir Hill wrote a damning expose in the NYT on the deeply disturbing facial recognition service PimEyes. From Kash's piece:
For $29.99 a month, a website called PimEyes offers a potentially dangerous superpower from the world of science fiction: the ability to search for a face, finding obscure photos that would otherwise have been as safe as the proverbial needle in the vast digital haystack of the internet.
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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.)
PimEyes has a very ... loose interpr…
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