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PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused
- Occurred
- Jan 1, 2017
- Published
- May 14, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
PimEyes offered its subscription-based AI service to anyone in the public to search for matching facial images across the internet, which critics said lacked public oversight and government rules to prevent itself from misuse such as stalking women.
Developers
- PimEyes
Deployers
- PimEyes
Harmed parties
- internet users
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Facial recognition service criticized for lack of safeguards against stalking and misuse.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8