A reference site on face search, face recognition and image privacy: every engine, law, case, term and opt-out route, sourced and dated.https://facesearch.wiki/enhttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/aclu-v-clearview/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/aclu-v-clearview/ACLU v Clearview AI: the 2020 BIPA suit, the 2022 settlement banning sales to private companies, and the federal class action whose settlement was vacated in 2026.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/baden-wurttemberg-v-pimeyes/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/baden-wurttemberg-v-pimeyes/Baden-Wurttemberg's LfDI inquiry into PimEyes: opened 2021, fine proceeding from December 2022, the move to the Seychelles, and no published decision by 2026.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/belgian-dpa-v-pimeyes/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/belgian-dpa-v-pimeyes/What is and is not on record about PimEyes in Belgium, the Hamburg authority's November 2025 decision, and noyb's 2026 lawsuit over the lack of enforcement.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/cnil-v-clearview/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/cnil-v-clearview/CNIL v Clearview AI: the 2021 formal notice, the EUR 20 million fine of October 2022, the EUR 5.2 million overdue penalty of 2023, and the enforcement gap.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/cothron-v-white-castle/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/cothron-v-white-castle/Cothron v. White Castle (2023 IL 128004): a BIPA claim accrues on every scan. The per-scan ruling that triggered the 2024 amendment and a USD 9.4 million settlement.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/dutch-dpa-v-clearview/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/dutch-dpa-v-clearview/Dutch DPA v Clearview AI: the EUR 30.5 million GDPR fine of 2024, its penalty payments, why the decision is final, and what it means for face search engines.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/facebook-bipa-settlement/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/facebook-bipa-settlement/The Facebook BIPA case: Tag Suggestions, the 2019 Ninth Circuit standing ruling, the USD 650 million settlement of 2021, and what it set for consent.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/ftc-v-rite-aid/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/ftc-v-rite-aid/FTC v Rite Aid: the December 2023 complaint over store facial recognition, the five-year ban, the safeguards the order requires, and what it signals.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/garante-v-clearview/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/garante-v-clearview/Garante v Clearview AI: Italy's EUR 20 million fine of 2022, the ban on collecting Italian residents' faces, the deletion order, and the first EU decision.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/google-photos-bipa-settlement/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/google-photos-bipa-settlement/Rivera v Google: the Google Photos face-grouping BIPA claims, the standing detour in federal court, and the USD 100 million Cook County settlement approved in 2022.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/hellenic-dpa-v-clearview/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/hellenic-dpa-v-clearview/Hellenic DPA v Clearview AI: Greece's EUR 20 million fine of July 2022 after a Homo Digitalis complaint, the ban and deletion order, and its place in the EU.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/ico-v-clearview/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/ico-v-clearview/ICO v Clearview AI: the GBP 7.5 million fine, the 2023 tribunal loss, the October 2025 Upper Tribunal judgment, and the Court of Appeal stage pending in 2026.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/meta-v-joy-timeline-crushai/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/meta-v-joy-timeline-crushai/Meta v Joy Timeline (CrushAI), filed June 2025 in Hong Kong: a platform suing a nudify app maker over evaded ads, the 2026 enforcement wave, and its pending status.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/oaic-v-clearview/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/oaic-v-clearview/OAIC v Clearview AI: Australia's 2021 determination, the 2023 tribunal decision affirming it, and the August 2024 decision not to pursue further action.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/opc-v-clearview/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/opc-v-clearview/Canada's joint Clearview AI findings of 2021, the provincial orders that followed, and the British Columbia court decisions that upheld them through 2025.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/cases/rosenbach-v-six-flags/https://facesearch.wiki/cases/rosenbach-v-six-flags/Rosenbach v. Six Flags (2019 IL 123186): a procedural BIPA violation is enough to sue, no further harm needed. The ruling behind Illinois biometric class actions.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/concepts/accuracy-bias-and-testing/https://facesearch.wiki/concepts/accuracy-bias-and-testing/How face recognition accuracy is measured, what NIST FRTE reports found on error rates and demographic differences, and why marketing claims cannot be checked.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/concepts/building-a-web-scale-face-index/https://facesearch.wiki/concepts/building-a-web-scale-face-index/How face search engines crawl the public web, store billions of embeddings for nearest-neighbour lookup, keep the index fresh, and decide what counts as public.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/concepts/deepfakes-and-synthetic-faces/https://facesearch.wiki/concepts/deepfakes-and-synthetic-faces/How deepfakes and AI-generated faces are made, why a face search cannot find a face that never existed, the tells that still work, and the laws that now apply.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/concepts/embeddings-and-similarity/https://facesearch.wiki/concepts/embeddings-and-similarity/What a face embedding is, how networks place the same face close together, how cosine similarity becomes a score, and why a high score is not proof of identity.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/concepts/face-detection-and-alignment/https://facesearch.wiki/concepts/face-detection-and-alignment/What face detection and alignment do before a face is compared, how detectors work, why small or turned faces fail, and the photo properties that matter.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/concepts/how-a-face-search-works/https://facesearch.wiki/concepts/how-a-face-search-works/The face search pipeline step by step: detection, alignment, embedding, index lookup, ranking and source pages, with the limits at each stage.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/concepts/image-provenance-and-metadata/https://facesearch.wiki/concepts/image-provenance-and-metadata/What EXIF metadata, platform identifiers and C2PA content credentials reveal about a photo, who strips them, and how provenance helps or fails when tracing an image.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/concepts/opt-outs-removal-and-the-limits-of-both/https://facesearch.wiki/concepts/opt-outs-removal-and-the-limits-of-both/Opting out of a face search engine, de-listing from Google and removing a photo from its host: the legal bases, routes, timelines and limits of each.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/directories/helplines/https://facesearch.wiki/directories/helplines/Helplines and reporting portals for image abuse, sextortion, romance fraud, stalking and crisis in the US, UK, India, Canada, Australia and Europe.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/directories/ncii-removal-by-country/https://facesearch.wiki/directories/ncii-removal-by-country/Intimate image removal routes in 11 countries: the law, where to report, the platform deadline and the helpline, from the US and UK to India and Brazil.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/directories/opt-out-routes/https://facesearch.wiki/directories/opt-out-routes/Opt-out routes for 20 face and image search engines side by side: form or email, verification asked for, stated timeline, cost and link. Checked Nov 6, 2026.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/directories/report-impersonation/https://facesearch.wiki/directories/report-impersonation/Official impersonation report routes for 13 platforms, from Instagram and Facebook to Tinder and Telegram, with who can file and what each asks for.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/amazon-rekognition/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/amazon-rekognition/Amazon Rekognition face APIs: DetectFaces, CompareFaces, collections and SearchFacesByImage, per-image pricing, the free tier, and the police moratorium since 2020.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/betaface/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/betaface/Betaface, the face recognition API and SDK vendor: what the API does, the free demo and daily limit, and how it differs from a web face search.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/bing-visual-search/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/bing-visual-search/Bing Visual Search: what it identifies, where it is built in (Bing, Edge, Snipping Tool, Windows Photos), what results show, and why it is not a face search engine.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/clearview-ai/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/clearview-ai/Clearview AI: the law-enforcement face search built on scraped web images, its 100-billion-image claim, who may use it, and fines and orders from seven countries.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/eyematch/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/eyematch/Eyematch.ai: a newer face search engine with Standard and Advanced monthly plans, custom tiers, an opt-out form naming Eyematch AI Pte. Ltd., five languages.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/face-search-ai/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/face-search-ai/Face Search AI (facesearchai.com): 3 free searches a day, plans from $7.77 a month, API from $50, apps and free removal. A different company from FaceSearch.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/facecheck-id/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/facecheck-id/FaceCheck.ID: what it indexes, its similarity scores and red flags, credit-pack pricing, the free selfie-verified removal, and its children and prohibited-use rules.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/facesearch/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/facesearch/FaceSearch (facesearch.cc): normal and deep search over the public web, a free first search, three paid plans, email removal, apps. By this wiki's publisher.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/facesift/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/facesift/FaceSift: an anonymous face search front end powered by FaceCheck.ID, a free try with a $1 unlock, a removal page, and FaceCheck.ID's disclaimers on use.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/findsio/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/findsio/Findsio by Veknika Inc.: US people search with phone lookup and an image lookup, the $1 trial, the FCRA disclaimer, and what is unverified about its face search.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/google-lens/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/google-lens/Google Lens as an image search: search by image on desktop and phone, what results show, why it does not find faces, and how Google removes photos of you.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/lenso-ai/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/lenso-ai/Lenso.ai: an image search suite with a regional face category, Starter, Professional and Developer plans, Research Mode, alerts, API, opt-out and DMCA routes.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/pimeyes/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/pimeyes/PimEyes, the best-known face search engine: what it indexes, what the free search shows, plan prices, how the opt-out works, and the regulator actions against it.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/profacefinder/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/profacefinder/ProFaceFinder: pay-per-pack face search ($7.95 for 2 searches, $11.95 for 5), a blurred free preview, the sources it claims to cover, and its opt-out page.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/protevio/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/protevio/Protevio, the GDPR-oriented reverse face search: free daily searches, euro plans with built-in takedowns, the 48-hour opt-out, and the minor-detection block.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/reversely-ai/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/reversely-ai/Reversely.ai: image search suite with a face tool, Silver and Gold weekly and monthly plans, the $9.99 single-search unlock, B2B API, and its opt-out and DMCA forms.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/search4faces/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/search4faces/Search4Faces: a face search over VK, Odnoklassniki, TikTok and Clubhouse profile photos, with published dataset sizes and dates, and no stated price or opt-out.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/social-catfish/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/social-catfish/Social Catfish: a US people-search service with a face-matching reverse image search, trial-then-subscription pricing, name and phone lookups, and the Scamfish blog.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/tineye/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/tineye/TinEye, the image-copy search engine since 2008: fingerprint matching, sort options, free web search, API bundle prices, and why it never finds another face photo.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/engines/yandex-images/https://facesearch.wiki/engines/yandex-images/Yandex Images search by image: how it works, why it finds faces more often than Google or Bing, what it returns, and the privacy questions around uploading a photo.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/glossary/biometric-data/https://facesearch.wiki/glossary/biometric-data/Biometric data defined: identifying data from a face, fingerprint, iris or voice, when a photo becomes biometric data, and the GDPR, BIPA and DPDP rules.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://facesearch.wiki/glossary/c2pa-content-credentials/https://facesearch.wiki/glossary/c2pa-content-credentials/C2PA content credentials defined: signed provenance metadata recording how an image was made and edited, who supports it, and what it does and does not prove.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT