Get notified whenever someone posts your face on the internet without your knowledge. And get the option to take it down. Today I'm launching a passion project: protectmyface.org It's two things in one: continuously scan the internet for people posting your face, alerts you when it shows up, and the ability to take down those photos with a simple button. All in one subscription. Why would I need this? Curiosity: Most people would like to know if someone is posting their photos on random sites without their knowledge. Digital hygiene: The ability to take down those photos lets you clean your digital footprint, especially for photos you don't like. Bullying: There's a huge uptick in image-based bullying, especially with AI edits using someone's real face. Peace of mind: even if you never exercise the takedown option, just knowing it's one click away is genuinely reassuring. How does it work? You upload a simple selfie and our system creates a private vector out of it, which is just a list of numbers. That vector is your unique math. The vector can recognize when another face produces the same numbers. We scan the internet comparing your vector against images we find online, focusing on the high-risk surfaces where image abuse actually clusters: image boards like 4chan, random public hate forums, and the broader public web. When we detect a match we notify you through a simple email. Like "hey, your face appeared on 4chan, a random forum, or a profile that isn't yours. Here's the link", and a convenient button to take it down using applicable laws that fit that case. All notifications are through email so you don't have to keep checking the website. Our scanner is continuous and always growing. It's not a one-time check. You sign up once and it keeps working in the background. have the peace of mind that if someone posts your face 9 months from now on a site we just added to our coverage, you'll still get notified. Coverage compounds. CAN THIS BE USED TO STALK SOMEONE!? No. ProtectMyFace is designed from the ground up to ONLY protect your own face. We use multiple verification methods to ensure the face being uploaded belongs to the account holder, including liveness checks and ID verification on flagged accounts. Uploading someone else's face violates our terms of service and will result in account termination. We take abuse prevention seriously and actively monitor for misuse. We also don't immediately deliver search results until a few days after account creation to make sure the account holder is protecting their own face and not using it to search for someone else's. Our commitment to safety is a big differentiator between us and other services that let anyone search for photos that aren't theirs with zero safeguards. Do you have experience building something this large? Is it secure? ProtectMyFace isn't just me. It's built by Sundial, a team of privacy and identity engineers with years of experience building products where data security is non-negotiable. Our ongoing projects include Onflow and other identity products that handle critical data at scale. We bring the same standards to this project. You scan the internet? Isn't that an almost impossible task? It is. But we use clever smart crawling methods that target the most high-risk clusters of the internet and common places where image-based abuse happens most often. We also scan the general public web slowly as our infrastructure grows. So we're only getting better from here. You can also submit links to photos you want taken down directly through your dashboard. So it's not only for photos our internet scanner finds. If you already know about a post using your face, you can hand us the link and we'll handle the takedown for you.

someone betrayed Indonesia and destroyed their tower 😭

Cute start. Of course the US is immediately the tallest

Help your country build the tallest tower and win $1,000 trusttower.org A cute social experiment in national cooperation and betrayal i made. 1. Log in with X 2. Get one cube 🧊 (it has your pfp name on it) 3. Build your country's tower, or betray and topple it 4. Tallest tower in 4 days wins $1,000 You only get one cube per twitter account and your choice to build or destroy is permanent. People who betray are out of the game forever but builders get their cube back and can place it again. So basically cute cubes representing their countries, where each one is a Twitter account stacking on top of each other trying to be the tallest and win. (The 1k goes to a random player in the winning tower)

it's my birthday today and my only birthday wish is that you follow @protectmyface

I feel like there has to be a perfect game concept like wordle still out there to be discovered with a few lines of code

Nearly half of US adults have photos of themselves online • 27% had no idea how many were out there • 25% had between 1 and 10 photos online • 20% had between 11 and 100 • 14% had none at all (Source: YouGov via Statista, Dec 2022.)

ProtectMyFace just achieved full 100% coverage of BlueSky. if anyone posts your face / photos there you'll know.

this is great for accessibility tools

Not many people know you can control what appears when people Google your name and hit the images tab

I can't view my DMs because of this odd error

helping people take down images with @protectmyface has been so satisfying. If you know anyone who needs help in this area DM me and I'll give them a free account

I keep forgetting how nice everyone on the internet is outside of twitter. This site makes you get used to the replies being nitpicky and hostile to the point where you start thinking it's normal

>Windows: Restart your pc I've been asking for weeks >Me: ok restarts >Windows: WiFi doesn't work now and half the screen is black :) why does it keep doing this

I wonder how many people are getting demotivated thinking no one likes their tweets, not knowing it's the new lottery system algorithm where grok judges your posts. Imagine getting judged by grok

Knowing whenever someone posts your photos/face online without your knowledge should be something everyone has access to. You shouldn't have to stumble across it randomly or rely on people tagging you. That's the basic thesis behind @protectmyface

Working on adding extra features to @protectmyface. If anyone has suggestions feel free to reach out. Your feedback is really valuable at this stage.

If you're ever curious about people uploading your pictures to Pinterest inspiration boards: We just expanded our @protectmyface coverage to monitor a large portion of it. You can browse out of curiosity or take those photos down, all from your dashboard.

We've added a convenient one-button way to file Take It Down Act requests on protectmyface.org if you ever need it. It covers AI edits as well.