BerlinPimEyes still searches faces, 20 months into the EU ban.
The EU AI Act prohibits building facial-recognition databases by untargeted scraping of images.
Germany’s Federal Network Agency became the enforcer only this summer, and PimEyes sells 75 searches a day for €32.90 a month.
The agency will not say what action it is taking.
How each outlet framed it
- netzpolitik.org leans critical
- shows the EU AI Act ban on facial databases is unenforced, with PimEyes still running and the Bundesnetzagentur silent
Sources: netzpolitik.org