technology

lol another PimEyes frontend. None of this tech is new but it's gotten a lot easier for the amateur. The technically neat thing is LLMs to do the brute work of parsing the scraped whitepages or whatever. Here's the students' writeup

How to Remove Your Information

Fortunately, it is possible to erase yourself from data sources like Pimeyes and FastPeopleSearch. We are outlining the steps below so that you and those you care about can protect themselves.

1. Removal from Reverse Face Search Engines:
   The major, most accurate reverse face search engines, Pimeyes and Facecheck.id, offer free services to remove yourself.

• Pimeyes
• Facecheck ID

2. Removal from People Search Engines
   Most people don’t realize that from just a name, one can often identify the person’s home address, phone number, and relatives’ names. We collected the opt out links to major people search engines below:

• FastPeopleSearch
• CheckThem
• Instant Checkmate
• Extensive list compiled by the New York Times

3. Preventing Identity Theft from SSN data dump leaks
   Most of the damage that can be done with an SSN are financial. The main way to protect yourself is adding 2FA to important logins and freezing your credit below:

• Freezing Your Credit (by Vox)