PimEyes sees use by Australian police, enacts ban on searches for children

The controversial Tbilisi-based facial recognition website PimEyes, which lets users upload photos of anonymous people and scrapes the Internet for matches, is causing new concerns in Australia, where police have tested the biometric tool, according to a report in the Guardian.

A freedom of information request by the news organization shows that Australian federal police (AFP) devices logged hundreds of network connections to PimEyes between January and August 2023, ten of which were identified as being for operational purposes. …

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