#PimEyes

[mrv3000]

On TikTok, PimEyes has become a formidable tool for internet sleuths trying to identify strangers, with videos notching many millions of views showing how a combination of PimEyes, and other search tools, can, for example, figure out the name of a random cameraman at a Taylor Swift concert.

What. the Absolute. FUCK.

[monetizeme]

The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home address.

[the-sleepy-archivist]

Online Privacy and Security Tips

I am a firm believer that people should be able to be anonymous and secure online. Over a lifetime of trial and error, I've slowly learned the best ways to protect myself, and I'd like to pass on that knowledge to anyone who wants to hear it.

Last updated May 2024 (added links to news articles about PimEyes being used to identify someone in real life)

Switch to Firefox for your main browser on Windows and Android

Avoid any browser based on the Chromium project (like Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome), as Google has a major conflict of interest that prevents it from truly having users' privacy interests at heart. It makes ~70-80% of its revenue from its highly targeted advertising business, for which it must collect as much information about you as possible. That means that no matter how badly certain parts of Google want to build privacy into the browser, business interests and pressure will always supersede them, or at least force a compromise that still enables some tracking. Firefox is owned and maintained by a non-profit, so it does not have that same conflict, and it shows in the features it builds (and does not build) and the way it treats its users.

I made a list of my favorite Firefox extensions if you want to make your internet experience more pleasant and/or more secure!

Note: on iOS (i.e. iPhones), Firefox' functionality is limited by Apple restrictions and I do not recommend it - using Safari with Extensions like Adguard or 1Blocker is more secure and will give you a better experience. I made a list of my favorite iOS Safari extensions too!

Use a reputable password manager

I suggest 1Password (avoid LastPass and all of the password managers built into browsers, they're not safe). A good password manager increases your online safety by:

Helping you avoid password reuse (a common cause of account hacking)

Generating complex passwords that are difficult to guess or brute-force, and

Allowing you to keep records of all the different sites you have accounts on (so you can quickly change passwords in the event of a breach or delete your accounts on them when they outlive their usefulness)

Delete old accounts you no longer need

If your data has been deleted, no one can steal and leak it if they manage to hack the company.

Sign up for alerts from HaveIBeenPwned (HIBP) to be notified when your data is leaked in a site hacking.

This allows you to quickly change your password, hopefully before anyone is able to decrypt it (if it wasn't stored properly) or use it (if it was easy to guess). If you have reused that password on other sites, be sure to change your password on those sites either.

Note that some leaks don’t actually have any info about what website they were stolen from; if criminals just dump a huge text file onto a hacking forum that has your username and an accompanying password in it, HIBP doesn’t necessarily know what site they hacked to get that info. This is where a password manager like 1Password will come in handy, because 1P can actually use HIBP’s API to check each of your passwords and see if any of them have been leaked before. It will alert you if you need to change a specific password, even if you weren’t aware that site had been hacked.

Note: 1P only sends the first 5 characters of the password hashes to HIBP, not the passwords themselves. You can read more about the feature and how it preserves your privacy here.

Assume all profile pictures on any site are public, and avoid using your face for them if possible

New AI-powered sites like PimEyes can take an image of you, identify your face, and search for it in other, unrelated images around the internet. I searched for myself using a recent image that had never been posted to the internet before, and it immediately identified me in completely separate images I was using as my profile pictures on Facebook and LinkedIn and provided links to my accounts there. In this new AI era, assume anyone who snaps a picture of you can link you to your identity on any website where you have publicly posted your face before. This is not hyperbole; fans used PimEyes to identify a cameraman at a Taylor Swift concert using nothing more than a screenshot of a video taken of him by a concertgoer. Note: for what it's worth, you can submit an opt-out request to PimEyes if you are worried about someone using it to find your accounts online, but it requires you to submit images of your face and your government ID to the company...

Never post the same (original) image on two accounts that you do want to keep separate

Even a simple reverse image search can allow someone to link your different sites together (i.e. don't post the same vacation sunset photo on both Facebook and Tumblr because anyone can use that to link those sites together. Even if your Facebook or Instagram images are private, a follower of yours on one of those sites could still find the Tumblr you are not comfortable sharing with anyone. Marking your Tumblr as hidden only discourages search engines from indexing it; shady companies can and will ignore that and index it anyway.

[xtrablak674]

2022 AfroPunk

PHOTOS BY EMMANUEL AGBEBLE

I was listening to NPR this morning and they had mentioned the AI driven app PimEyes which I had used previously to find photos of myself that are on the internet that I am aware of but don't have copies of. I found about ten more photos from last year's AfroPunk that I attended with my niece on her birthday week. I still marvel at my look which was literally put together right before we left the house that day utilizing things I had purchased just that morning.

[Toe to Head - Dismantle the look]

-Open toe sandals purchased in Jaipur India on a 2007 trip

- Thai fisherman pants made in Nepal bought on Etsy

- African Print corset purchased at L Train Vintage/Brooklyn

-Mud cloth sash purchased in Ghana on my 2011 trip

-Necklace by Alicia P

-Rainbow umbrella purchased that morning at the Brooklyn Museum gift shop

-Queen sunglasses purchased in Bedstuy at Rainbow

-Vintage Indian bangle and silver cuff purchased in India in 2007

-Attitude models own

[Photos by Emmanuel Agbeble]

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

PimEyes: Face Recognition Search Engine and Reverse Image Search

[gamesatwork]

e484 — n Card Monty

Games at Work podcast e484: n Card Monty with Andy, Michael and Michael — social and interpersonal evolution from technology advancements, data ownership, North Carolina and global supply chain impacts from hurricane Helene and a whole lot more!

Photo by Laine Cooper on Unsplash Published 7 October 2024 Co-hosts Andy, Michael and Michael start off the show with a follow on discussion from last week’s episode on the future of work and AR glasses.  This theme is not new at all to the Games at Work crew – many examples of the future of augmented reality coming through glasses can be found in the back catalogue – and some from more than a…

[reneleijen]

Gezichtenzoekmachine gaat zoekopdrachten naar kinderen blokkeren

Zoekmachine PimEyes gaat een detectiesysteem inzetten om zoekopdrachten naar kindergezichten te herkennen en te blokkeren. Dat kan kinderen in gevaar brengen, aldus ceo Giorgi Gobronidze. De maatregel is onderdeel van het ‘no harm’-beleid. Een algoritme gaat de leeftijden inschatten ‘om minderjarigen te identificeren’. Dat werkt volgens Gobronidze (nu nog) beter met 14-minners dan met oudere…

[rudeekane]

Retrouver toutes les photos de vous visibles sur internet avec « Pim Eyes » #pimeyes

[mehmetyildizmelbourne-blog]

The Surprising Danger Lurking in Your Smart Glasses: A Wake-Up Call for Privacy

How Brilliant Innovations Can Be Misused and Abused, Causing Unnecessary Stress to the Public As a retired scientist and health advocate in many countries, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing incredible technological advances throughout my 53-year career in the healthcare industry. Privacy issues have always concerned me as they affect our mental health.  From early computing systems to the…

[vague-humanoid]

Two Harvard students recently revealed that it's possible to combine Meta smart glasses with face image search technology to "reveal anyone's personal details," including their name, address, and phone number, "just from looking at them."

In a Google document, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio explained how they linked a pair of Meta Ray Bans 2 to an invasive face search engine called PimEyes to help identify strangers by cross-searching their information on various people-search databases. They then used a large language model (LLM) to rapidly combine all that data, making it possible to dox someone in a glance or surface information to scam someone in seconds—or other nefarious uses, such as "some dude could just find some girl’s home address on the train and just follow them home,” Nguyen told 404 Media.

This is all possible thanks to recent progress with LLMs, the students said.

"This synergy between LLMs and reverse face search allows for fully automatic and comprehensive data extraction that was previously not possible with traditional methods alone," their Google document said.

Where previously someone could spend substantial time conducting their own search of public databases to find information based on someone's image alone, their dystopian smart glasses do that job in a few seconds, their demo video said.

The co-creators said that they altered a pair of Meta Ray Bans 2 to create I-XRAY to raise awareness of "significant privacy concerns" online as technology rapidly advances.

[technofeudalism]

there are a million posts about what not to do at protests on tumblr that you can find, so i'm not going to make another one. i just wanted to post one specific reminder. please do not share pictures of the ongoing protests. people will be and already are scrawling through these pictures and videos, putting stills of people in them through websites like Pimeyes and trying to doxx them or worse. given that a lot of the current protests center around immigration, you might be drawing a target on people's backs by sharing photos of any kind of protest or action taking place right now. unless the photos have gone through a major news publication already, don't share them. even then, show extreme discretion.

[quotejungle]

ハーバード大学の学生2人が最近、 Metaスマートグラスと顔画像検索技術を組み合わせることで、「ただ見るだけで」名前、住所、電話番号などの個人情報を明らかにすることが可能だと明らかにした。  Google のドキュメントで、Meta Ray Bans 2 をPimEyes と呼ばれる侵入型顔検索エンジンにリンクさせ、さまざまな人物検索データベースで情報を横断検索することで見知らぬ人を特定できるようにした方法について説明しました。次に、大規模言語モデル (LLM) を使用してすべてのデータを迅速に組み合わせ、一目見ただけで個人情報を開示したり、数秒で誰かを騙すための情報を表面化させたり、その他の悪質な使用方法 (「電車の中で女の子の住所を見つけて、家まで尾行する」など) を可能にしたりできる。

メタスマートグラスは数秒で誰でも個人情報を開示できると研究で判明 - Ars Technica

[sonalirichard]

Namaskar🙏 , Dearest🌹♥️

Mr . Bachchan You have Not Replied to My Important Reblog ~ Message in your Blog , that I sent you a few days ago ...

How it Sad 🥀

I ask you to fulfill my Last Request🙏

I"ve been trying to find my Best Friend LOLITA ♥️ for 2 years , but it"s not easy to find her 😢

You know LOLITA well , and if You can Help me to Find Her , it will make me Very Happy 😊

🎀 Many years ago when Lolita and I lived in Moscow , WERE FRIENDS and MET , Everything was Fine 🦋👌🌺 ...

But one day We went our separate ways , and the Contact & Connection between us were lost 💔...

I really Want to Find Lolita🌹asap & Renew our Friendship 🕉

You know a Lot of Friends ~ IT Specialists , who are well Versed in the Internet & Technology ✅

Ask these People to try to Find Lolita 🎀 on the Internet , on Social Media , or by any other means 🙏

🍎 There are Sites , and I"m giving You a Link to One of these Sites here , where You can Find a Person in a Photo , Upload a Photo , and they"ll Show you All the Similar People with their Photos & their Accounts ✅

There are Other Ways to Find a Person ...

⚕♾⚕♾⚕♾⚕

PimEyes : Face Recognition Search Engine and Reverse Image Search 👌

https :

//pimeyes.com/en

There are other ways to find a Person ...

I"M SENDING YOU A PHOTO OF LOLITA { this is the only Photo I have , unfortunately ⤵️💎

♥️ L O L I T A 🔮

And that"s Very Sad ~ I don"t Remember Lolita"s Last Name 🥺

She has lived in Moscow all her life .

As I Wrote to you earlier , I"m going to Fly to India ✈🦚

I really Want to See & Meet Lolita while I"m still ALIVE 🕉

I Don"t Have People Close To me Anymore 💦

There is also My Beloved Friend🌹,

Sister Yvonne ♥️,

who Lives in Ottawa , Canada ����

She has now Moved into a New Spacious House , and I am very Happy for her ‼️🏆

And I"m a Homeless Person , and I don"t have a Roof over my head anymore 😱 💦 😢

💔💔💔 As I Saw & Understood ~ it is Absolutely Useless to Ask You for Help , but I will try to do it One Last Time 🙏🌹🙏🌹🙏

Maybe at least

One of my Wishes will Come True , and with your Help I will see my Lolita again 🕉🪔🎁

Give my Request some of your Time , and You can have Fun at your Leisure in your free time , trying to Find

Lolita ♥️

It"s a Puzzle for your Mind & an Interesting Activity , but for me it"s the Fulfillment of my Great Desire 🎁

Agreed❓

🆗️ When will You

or your Friends Successfully Find Lolita ~ Please let me know 💝🙏 💯

You know all my Contacts ✅

It would be Fantastic to Meet My Lolita 💟 again & Fly to India 🌴✈

Together ♥️♥️, even for the Last Time 😇🔥🔮

May GOD and All the HIGHER POWERS 🕊 Help you in Finding My Friend 🕉 🕉 🕉

With Respect & Hope 🙏🌳🏆

Your Sonali 🐈‍⬛

[dastmalchiansnose]

there are some really nice pics of david that i want to post but i cannot find the source no matter what reverse-searching and even PIMEYES i use so i cannot post them for my own moral conscience

[aktionfsa-blog-blog]

Schleswig-Holstein auf Abwegen

Katastrophales "Sicherheits- und Migrationspaket"

"Es ist nicht alles Gold was glänzt." Vor wenigen Tagen hatten wir die schwarz-grüne Landesregierung in Schleswig-Holstein noch gelobt, wegen des geplanten Umstiegs der Arbeitsplätze in der Verwaltung auf das quelloffene Betriebssystem Linux.

Nun ist es an der Zeit diese Regierung wegen ihres "Sicherheits- und Migrationspakets" zu verdammen, denn es beinhaltet u.a.

verschiedene Arten der biometrischen Gesichtserkennung,

Abgleich der Daten aus öffentlich zugänglichen Quellen des Internets mit den polizeilichen Fahndungsdaten,

dann hat die Polizei ein eigenes Clearview oder PimEyes,

das ist ein klarer Verstoß gegen EU-Datenschutzregeln,

aber die EU-KI-Verordnung verbietet "die Verwendung von KI-Systemen für die Gesichtserkennung",

Einsatz von Überwachungstechnik bei Großveranstaltungen oder an Kriminalitätsschwerpunkten,

Einsatz von Staatstrojanern in Form der sog. „Quellen-TKÜ“.

Dieser Katalog aus dem Gruselkabinett in Kiel wiegt um einiges schwerer als die wünschenswerte mögliche Einführung von Linux.

Ist das der Vorgeschmack auf eine mögliche schwarze-grüne Koalition im Bund?

Mehr dazu bei https://netzpolitik.org/2024/schwarz-gruene-landesregierung-schleswig-holstein-fuehrt-gleich-mehrere-arten-von-gesichtserkennung-ein/

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