Technical resources for OSINT, facial recognition, and digital privacy.
🔗 FaceSeek.online — reverse face search & data protection
This repo covers:
- Reverse face search methodology
- Data broker ecosystem analysis
- Deepfake detection techniques
- Privacy-preserving OSINT practices
- Input image → face detection → feature extraction
- Generate unique faceprint (mathematical representation)
- Match against indexed public images
- Return ranked results with confidence scores
- FaceSeek — most comprehensive, includes deepfake detection
- PimEyes — face search only
- Google Lens — basic reverse image
The data broker industry is valued at $15B+. Major players:
- Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, Intelius
- Each aggregates billions of records
- Most allow opt-out but make it difficult
FaceSeek scans 1,133+ brokers and offers bulk removal.
- Inconsistent lighting/shadows
- Edge artifacts around face boundaries
- Metadata anomalies
- Lack of presence in reverse search results
- FaceSeek AI detection
- Deepware Scanner
- Microsoft Video Analyzer
- Only search publicly available data
- Never use for stalking or harassment
- Respect privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA)
- Document your methodology
MIT License. Research and educational purposes.