Internet is vast digital space and to find a photo or search a face from it is like finding a needle from haystack. However, a website called PimEyes empowers you to find a photo of a face. Just agree to its terms of service and you get photos of faces deemed similar. You are also given links to their placement on internet.

There is another facial recognition tool — Clearview AJ. However, it is available to only law enforcement agencies.

Giorgi Gobrnidze is the new owner of PimEyes. It charges $29.99 per month.

PimEyes is a useful tool for helping people to keep tabs on their online reputation. It is a stalkerware by design. There are methods to exclude the photos from public results, but that is available to subscribers who pay for PROtect plans costing about $90 to $300 per month. It blocks from results photos of faces with a high similarity level when you opt out. Such opt outs should be done regularly.

Recently, Russians have been blocked from the site.

A German data protection agency is probing PimEyes.

PimEyes is akin to a digital card catalogue. It does not store photos or individual face templates. It has URLs for individual images associated with facial features these carry.

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