UK privacy campaign goes after yet another facial-recognition search engine

Big Brother Watch, a UK-based privacy advocacy group, has filed a legal complaint with the nation's Information Commissioner alleging that PimEyes, a facial recognition image search engine, is unlawfully processing data on millions of British citizens.

Much like Clearview AI before it, PimEyes scrapes public websites for photos, which it stores in a massive database. Anyone can upload a photo, Big Brother Watch said, "which is then processed using facial recognition technology to find potential matches from an index of …

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