Guides
Face privacy, one problem at a time
Three different problems get called the same thing. Finding out whether your face is searchable, getting photos already indexed taken down, and hardening the image you intend to keep public are separate jobs with separate answers.
Find out what is exposed
Start here if you do not yet know how searchable your face is.
Get existing photos taken down
For photos already indexed by a face-search engine.
The PimEyes opt-out, step by step
What the opt-out actually requires, and why it has to be repeated.
ReadRemove photos from PimEyes
For people who already found their face there and want it down.
ReadDoes face-search removal work?
Every engine we can find, what its opt-out really demands, and what happened when we filed.
ReadProtect the photo you keep online
For the image that has to stay public.
Stop facial recognition using your photo
What can and cannot be done to a public image to make it harder to match.
ReadProtect a LinkedIn headshot
The highest-risk photo most people have, because it is tied to a real name and employer.
ReadFawkes vs LowKey vs Glaze
Two of them protect a face and one protects artwork. Which is which, and the limits all three share.
ReadReduce deepfake risk from a profile photo
What a clean, high-resolution public headshot gives a generator, and what to publish instead.
ReadDo it yourself
The free routes, and the ones that do not exist however often they are asked for.
If this is your situation
The same problem, framed for the people who hit it most often.
If you are job hunting
You need a visible professional photo. That is the whole tension.
ReadIf you are a public-facing executive
Press pages and bios put a canonical headshot somewhere you do not control.
ReadIf you are a creator or streamer
Your face is the brand, and a screenshot is all a face-search engine needs.
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