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- November 6, 2026Wiki launched with the first set of engines, laws, cases, glossary terms, concepts, organisations, directories and the timeline.
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November 6, 2026
- ACLU v Clearview AI (Illinois BIPA settlement) · Case
- Baden-Wurttemberg data protection authority v PimEyes (Germany) · Case
- PimEyes: Belgian and Hamburg regulators and the noyb lawsuit · Case
- CNIL v Clearview AI (France) · Case
- Cothron v. White Castle System, Inc. · Case
- Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens v Clearview AI (Netherlands) · Case
- Facebook BIPA settlement (USD 650 million) · Case
- FTC v Rite Aid (facial recognition surveillance order) · Case
- Garante v Clearview AI (Italy) · Case
- Rivera v Google (Google Photos BIPA settlement, USD 100 million) · Case
- Hellenic DPA v Clearview AI (Greece) · Case
- Information Commissioner v Clearview AI (United Kingdom) · Case
- Meta Platforms v Joy Timeline HK Limited (CrushAI) · Case
- OAIC v Clearview AI (Australia) · Case
- Privacy Commissioners v Clearview AI (Canada) · Case
- Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp. · Case
- Accuracy, bias and testing · Concept
- Building a web-scale face index · Concept
- Deepfakes and synthetic faces · Concept
- Embeddings and similarity · Concept
- Face detection and alignment · Concept
- How a face search works · Concept
- Image provenance and metadata · Concept
- Opt-outs, removal, and the limits of both · Concept
- Helplines for image abuse, scams and online harm, by country · Directory
- Removing intimate images shared without consent, by country · Directory
- Opt-out routes for every face search engine · Directory
- Where to report a fake or impersonating account · Directory
- Amazon Rekognition · Engine
- Betaface · Engine
- Bing Visual Search · Engine
- Clearview AI · Engine
- Eyematch.ai · Engine
- Face Search AI (facesearchai.com) · Engine
- FaceCheck.ID · Engine
- FaceSearch (facesearch.cc) · Engine
- FaceSift · Engine
- Findsio · Engine
- Google Lens · Engine
- Lenso.ai · Engine
- PimEyes · Engine
- ProFaceFinder · Engine
- Protevio · Engine
- Reversely.ai · Engine
- Search4Faces · Engine
- Social Catfish · Engine
- TinEye · Engine
- Yandex Images · Engine
- Biometric data · Term
- C2PA content credentials · Term
- Catfishing · Term
- Consent (data protection) · Term
- Crawler · Term
- Data broker · Term
- Deep search · Term
- Deepfake · Term
- DMCA takedown · Term
- Doppelganger effect · Term
- EXIF metadata · Term
- Face detection · Term
- Face embedding · Term
- Face recognition · Term
- Index (face search) · Term
- Facial recognition search · Term
- False positive · Term
- Impersonation (online) · Term
- Liveness detection · Term
- NCII (non-consensual intimate images) · Term
- One-to-many matching (1:N) · Term
- Opt-out · Term
- OSINT (open-source intelligence) · Term
- Perceptual hash · Term
- Public web · Term
- Re-encoding · Term
- Reverse face search · Term
- Reverse image search · Term
- Romance scam · Term
- Sextortion · Term
- Similarity score · Term
- Source page · Term
- Australia: Privacy Act 1988 · Law
- Canada: PIPEDA, the federal private-sector privacy law · Law
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act and the ban on scraping faces · Law
- EU Digital Services Act (DSA) and image removal · Law
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and biometric data · Law
- India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 · Law
- India: Information Technology Act 2000 and the IT Rules 2021 · Law
- Quebec: Law 25 and the private-sector privacy act · Law
- UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 · Law
- UK Online Safety Act 2023 and intimate image offences · Law
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA, as amended by the CPRA) · Law
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and face search · Law
- Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) · Law
- TAKE IT DOWN Act (United States) · Law
- Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI) · Law
- Washington biometric law and the My Health My Data Act · Law
- CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés) · Organisation
- European Data Protection Board (EDPB) · Organisation
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) · Organisation
- Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) · Organisation
- Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) · Organisation
- Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) · Organisation
- National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) · Organisation
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) · Organisation
- noyb (None of Your Business) · Organisation
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) · Organisation
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) · Organisation
- StopNCII.org · Organisation