Should this creepy search engine exist?

Search Engine

PJ Vogt

Society & Culture, Business, Technology

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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After stumbling on a new kind of search engine for faces, we called privacy journalist Kashmir Hill. She’s been reporting on the very sudden and unregulated rise of these facial search engines. Here’s the story of the very first one, the mysterious person who made it, and the copycats it helped spawn. Support the show: searchengine.show To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:32.0	This search engine lives on a website. I'm not going to tell you the name of it for reasons
1:36.1	that will become clear, but I am going to describe to you how it works. So you open the site, upload a photo of a person's face, I can upload a photo of
1:47.0	a person's face, I can upload a photo of myself right now, wait about 30 seconds for the search to run,
1:52.0	and then I get taken to this page, which includes
1:55.4	all these different photos of my face from all these different places on the internet.
2:00.2	I can click on any of the photos, and it'll take me to the site where the photo lives.
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