Remove Your Face From Facial-Recognition Search Engines (PimEyes and Reverse-Image)

Before any opt-out

Find where the photo lives first.

Facial-recognition exposure is usually two problems stacked together: the engine that finds your face, and the site that actually hosts the image. Treat them as separate problems.

If the result is intimate, nude, AI-generated, or tied to a threat, safety comes first: ask us privately in chat, and never send the images.

Before anything else: is the search showing intimate images?

Face-search engines are increasingly used to hunt for sexual or intimate images of a specific person — a common step in sextortion and image-abuse cases. If a reverse-image or face search is returning nude, sexual, or otherwise intimate images of you (real or AI-generated), stop here. Don't send the images to anyone.

That situation is handled differently. Ask us privately: choose your situation and, if you like, share one public link. You see the price before you pay, and a person reviews every paid case within 48 hours, with a full refund if we can't take it.

Everything below is for non-intimate face-search opt-outs — your ordinary photos showing up in face-search results. If that is what you're dealing with, read on.

What this page is, and what it is not

AboutUs is a content-removal and online-reputation agency. We are not a law firm, and nothing on this page is legal advice. This page is educational — it explains the options and their limits so you can see them before you pay anyone. If you want follow-up, page-versus-search separation, and ongoing upkeep handled for you, we put that in a written agreement.

One honest warning before you start: no one can truthfully promise to erase your face from every search engine and every website. Faces get re-indexed, new photos get uploaded, and new engines launch. Anyone promising certainty before looking at your case is overselling. A real service writes down the items, the intended result, any search-only limits, and the refund terms before any work begins, and is honest about limits. Keep that in mind as you read — including the parts about us.

How face-search engines actually work.

A reverse-image search matches a specific picture. A face-search engine is different and more invasive: it builds a mathematical signature of your face (a 'faceprint') and then finds other photos of the same face anywhere it has crawled — different clothes, different years, different websites. PimEyes is the best-known consumer example; Clearview AI is the best-known law-enforcement one; FaceCheck.ID and many copycats sit in between.

Two facts shape every realistic plan. First: most of these engines don't host the photos. They index pictures that live on other websites and link to them. Second: because face-matching is approximate, not exact, one opt-out request rarely catches every image of you. That's why removal from the page, opt-outs from engines, and follow-up are handled separately.

PimEyes and other consumer face-search sites.

Consumer face-search engines may offer opt-out or privacy requests, but their requirements can change. The key limit: an opt-out hides results in that engine; it doesn't delete the photos from the websites where they live.

Think of it as removing the card from a library catalog, not the book from the shelf. The work in a private case is deciding which pages, engine results, and repeat checks belong in the same scope.

Clearview AI and biometric privacy rights.

Clearview AI and similar biometric systems are more about privacy law than ordinary search. Your rights depend on your state, where you live, and which laws apply to you.

Be realistic. These programs usually have narrow eligibility rules, and outside certain states the rights can be limited. This page can name that limit; whether you qualify, what proof is needed, and follow-up are worked out privately.

FaceCheck.ID and the copycat problem.

FaceCheck.ID and similar engines each keep their own database, so an opt-out at one engine does nothing at the others. New lookalike services also appear over time.

In practice this is ongoing upkeep, not a one-time fix. This page can tell you the problem repeats; the engine-by-engine details, replies, and follow-up schedule are the paid work.

Google shows results. It isn't where the photo lives.

Google isn't a face-search engine, but it is often how people find images. Its eligible removal options can hide certain results, while the original page may stay online.

That difference matters for what you pay for. Google results, face-search results, and removal from the page are three different results, and your case file keeps them separate.

Removal from the page vs. delisting — and why you may need both

There are two very different results, and mixing them up is the most common mistake. Source removed means the photo is taken off the website that actually hosts it — the social profile, the forum, the people-search page. When the page is gone, face-search engines and search results lose it the next time they update. This is the real fix.

Delisting means asking a search engine or face-search engine to stop showing a result while the photo still exists. It may be your only option when the website won't cooperate. But it is a limited result, never a substitute: the image is still online, still reachable by direct link, and can show up in a different engine. A trustworthy plan goes after the page first and uses delisting to cover what the page owner won't remove.

Two kinds of pages are honestly hard. Real news or editorial coverage usually won't come down without the publisher's agreement or a court order, so the realistic option there is delisting and publishing other material, not deletion. People-search pages that show your photo next to your details can also need ongoing upkeep rather than a one-time promise.

Why opting out is an ongoing job, and what follow-up adds

Even a clean first round fades over time. New photos get posted, old sites get re-crawled, engines change their matching, and new face-search copycats launch. The only thing that keeps up is repeat follow-up — catching new appearances early and keeping pages separate from engine results.

The hard part is consistency: keeping good records, checking the right places, keeping pages separate from engine results, and knowing when a website won't cooperate. What a service adds is steady, tracked work. The mindset that works is upkeep, not a one-time cleanup.

Where paid face-search help fits

If this is more than you want to manage, this is the part we do: separating engine results from the pages themselves, requesting removal where there's a realistic basis, labeling search-only work, and following up on new matches over time. For items we accept, the service agreement sets out the item, the intended result, any search-only limits, and the refund terms before work starts. Timing varies by website, platform, the legal basis, and whether the request is complete — no honest service guarantees a specific result.

Start with a written quote request. You tell us what you're seeing and where; we tell you honestly what can realistically be removed, what is search-only, and what it would take. No pressure to pay first, no countdown, and never a sensitive image in a public form.