No action taken against PimEyes: noyb lawsuit against Hamburg DPA

National Administrative Procedures and DPA inactivity Today, noyb has filed a lawsuit against the Hamburg data protection authority (DPA). While the authority considers the practices of the facial recognition search engine PimEyes to be illegal, it refuses to take effective action because the company seems to be based in Dubai. PimEyes systematically extracts biometric data from images on the internet and uses it to build up a database. Users can upload photos of people to this website to find further images of the same person via facial recognition. The claimant had originally filed a complaint against PimEyes with the Hamburg DPA in July 2020. Complaints procedure C042Background on PimEyes. PimEyes continuously scans the internet to collect faces in a database. The company has already collected billions of images, which are used for its facial recognition search engine. On its website, anyone can identify other people by uploading a photo of them. You are then shown further images of