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PimEyes, a public search engine that uses facial recognition to match online photos of people, has banned searches of minors over concerns it endangers children, reports The New York Times<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n At least, it should. <\/em>PimEyes\u2019 new detection system, which uses age detection AI to identify whether the person is a child, is still very much a work in progress. After testing it, The New York Times <\/em>found it struggles to identify children photographed at certain angles. The AI also doesn\u2019t always accurately detect teenagers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n PimEyes chief executive Giorgi Gobronidze says he\u2019d been planning on implementing such a protection mechanism since 2021. However, the feature was only fully deployed after New York Times<\/em> writer Kashmir Hill published an article about the threat AI poses to children last week. According to Gobronidze, human rights organizations working to help minors can continue to search for them, while all other searches will produce images that block children\u2019s faces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the article, Hill writes that the service banned over 200 accounts for inappropriate searches of children. One parent told Hill she\u2019d even found photos of her children she\u2019d never seen before using PimEyes. In order to find out where the image came from, the mother would have to pay a $29.99 monthly subscription fee. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n PimEyes is just one of the facial recognition engines that have been in the spotlight for privacy violations. In January 2020, Hill\u2019s\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0investigation\u00a0revealed how hundreds of law enforcement organizations had\u00a0already started\u00a0using Clearview AI, a similar face recognition engine, with little oversight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThis is just another example of the large overarching problem within technology, surveillance-built or not,\u201d Daly Barnett, a staff technologist\u00a0at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The Intercept <\/em>last year while criticizing PimEyes\u2019 lack of safeguards for children at the time. \u201cThere isn\u2019t privacy built from the get-go with it, and users have to opt out of having their privacy compromised.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] PimEyes, a public search engine that uses facial recognition to match online photos of people, has banned searches of minors over concerns it endangers children, reports The New York Times. At least, it should. PimEyes\u2019 new detection system, which uses age detection AI to identify whether the person is a child, is still very …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}