Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces

Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces

People-search tool ClarityCheck left database containing more than 9M image files exposed.

Face-search tool ClarityCheck left 9M photos exposed

A people-search tool that promises “private and secure” searches left more than 9 million image files exposed online, including photos of people’s faces. A security researcher found the unprotected database, according to reports by WIRED and Digital Trends. The tool is ClarityCheck, a service that lets someone upload a photo to identify the person in […] This story continues at The Next Web

A face-search tool left more than 9 million photos sitting unprotected

A security researcher found more than 9 million face photos sitting in an unsecured ClarityCheck database that required no password to access.

ClarityCheck people-finder left millions of face photos exposed

ClarityCheck, a facial-identification tool for which it’s hard to think of many legitimate uses, reportedly left millions of face photos publicly exposed on the internet in a major privacy breach. It’s likely that the vast majority of victims had no idea their photos had been uploaded to the site, and had never granted consent …