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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused
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.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2021-05-14T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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