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Public databases have photos of people's faces? Or do they mean private but with access available for purchase? I didn't think those had photos either but I've never paid for access so I don't know.
No, but meta does. Facial recognition will bring up their fb/Instagram.
I have not come across facial recognition software that contains Facebook pictures in its database. I don't mean to be creepy, but I'm curious about which software you're referring to.
Whatever software they are talking about in the article, they don't mention a name.
They did mention a name. Publicly available database called PimEyes apparently.
That and the following make me suspect that this is a faked publicity stunt rather than a real prototype.
It's in the article. Public database called PimEyes.
It doesn't go into much more detail than that. Says it's an open to the public face searching database.
PimEyes doesn't search Facebook. You can try it for yourself. It will show you matching faces for free, but you have to pay to find out where it found them.
Fair. I presume that they meant publicly available in the sense that it was accessible to the public, not in the sense that it was necessarily free.
The article says they are using PimEyes, which I assume means that they're paying for a subscription.