Privacy Concerns Escalate With Launch of New Facial Search Engine

by Didi Rankovich | Reclaim The Net

Lenso.ai and fellow EyeMatch.ai machine learning (“AI”) company have announced the launch of a new facial recognition tool – specifically, a search engine based on facial recognition.

Lenso.ai brings general AI reverse image search to the table, while EyeMatch.ai’s contribution is reverse image search for faces.

This consumer-facing search engine is currently demoed on Lenso.ai’s site, and lauded by the company as “highly accurate and fast” – not to mention, “user friendly.”

That last point is meant to describe technical ease of use (drag-and-drop or upload images), whereas the “friendliness,” or lack thereof (or worse) of invasive biometrics of various types is always another matter, especially regarding privacy and security. Read Full Article >