PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused
Description
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.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- pimeyes
Alleged Developers
- pimeyes
Harmed Parties
- internet-users
- privacy
- biometric-data-subjects
Classification
Risk Domain
Privacy & SecurityRisk Subdomain
2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information
MIT Risk Profile
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