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These are reference pages, not news: what a reverse face search is, how face recognition turns a photo into something a computer can compare, where face search stands legally in the US, EU, UK and India, and step-by-step guides to removing yourself from search engines, including the ones that compete with us.
Each page opens with a definition, uses question-form headings, cites its sources and ends with one short note on how the topic applies to FaceSearch. They are reviewed at least every 90 days and carry the date of the last review.
Guides
- How to reverse image searchGoogle Lens, TinEye, Yandex and Bing on every device, with cropping tips and a table of what each finds.
- How to report a fake profileThe impersonation report route on each major platform, the evidence to collect first, and when to involve the police.
- Is someone using your photos?The signs, the two searches to run, and what to do with each kind of finding.
- Remove your photos from the internetSite owners, DMCA, Google removals, StopNCII, data brokers and face search opt-outs, with how long each takes.
How it works
- What is a reverse face search?The definition, the mechanics in plain words, and the line between what it finds and what it cannot.
- Face search vs reverse image searchTwo tools that look alike and do different jobs, with a table of when to use which.
- The doppelgänger effectWhy strangers who look like you appear in results, and how to tell a match from a coincidence.
- How face recognition worksFrom pixels to an embedding to a ranked match: what the numbers mean and where they fail.
- Face search glossaryShort, plain definitions of the search, technology, privacy, safety and legal terms used across this site.
Law
- Is face search legal?What biometric and privacy laws in the US, EU, UK, India, Canada and Australia mean for engines and for the people who use them.
- Face search law: United StatesBIPA, CUBI, Washington, California, FCRA and the Take It Down Act, and what each means for engines and for searchers.
- Face search law: European UnionGDPR Article 9, the household exemption, the AI Act's scraping ban, the PimEyes and Clearview AI cases, and the rights you can enforce.
- Face search law: United KingdomUK GDPR and the ICO's biometric guidance, the Clearview AI appeal, the Online Safety Act offences and where to report.
- Face search law: IndiaThe DPDP Act and its phased rollout, IT Act offences, the 2026 takedown rules, BNS stalking and voyeurism, and where to report.
- Face search law: CanadaPIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, Alberta and BC, the Clearview AI findings and orders, and the Criminal Code rules on intimate images and harassment.
- Face search law: AustraliaThe Privacy Act and APPs, the OAIC Clearview AI determination, the 2024 reforms and privacy tort, and the eSafety image-based abuse scheme.
Opt-out guides
- Remove yourself from PimEyesThe three-step opt-out form, what to redact on your ID, and what the block does and does not change.
- Remove yourself from FaceCheck.IDSearch yourself, select the matches, verify with a selfie or redacted ID, and what happens next.
- Remove yourself from Lenso.aiOne face photo, a web form and a confirmation email: Lenso.ai's opt-out, and when to use its DMCA form instead.
- Remove a photo from Google ImagesWhich of Google's four removal routes fits your case, how to file each, and why the source site still matters.
- Remove yourself from Reversely.aiFace photos, an anonymised ID and an email: Reversely.ai's three-step opt-out, and when its DMCA form is the right route instead.