Searching for your name online – a practice known as ‘egosurfing’ – may uncover a photo of you that’s been posted without your knowledge or permission. To get it taken down, you’ll need to contact the owner of the site hosting the image, or – if the picture contains intimate or personally identifiable content – ask Google to exclude it from future results (www.snipca.com/49325). But photos that aren’t labelled with your name are much harder to find and remove. Here’s what you can do.
Find photos of yourself using PimEyes
The most accurate – and potentially the most alarming – tool for finding photos of yourself online is undoubtedly PimEyes (). This ‘face search engine’ uses AI-powered facial-recognition technology to scour the web for pictures containing your face, based on
