Stop face reverse search
from finding the real you.
PimEyes, FaceCheck.id, and similar tools index public photos and let anyone match a face to its other appearances online. Once your face is in the index, it's effectively permanent. Remasked replaces your face with a persona that won't match anything.
What reverse search would see instead.
Tap to reveal the original. The right-hand face is what PimEyes, FaceCheck, and others would index — none of it links back to you.
Persona
Persona
PersonaHow face reverse search works
Face reverse-search tools build large indexes of faces scraped from the public web. When someone uploads a photo, the tool extracts a face embedding — a mathematical fingerprint of the face — and searches for close matches in the index.
The match doesn't require the same photo. Different angles, different lighting, different years — modern face-recognition models match across all of them. A photo on your dating profile, your LinkedIn, your fitness app, and a forum avatar from 2014 all collapse into the same identity cluster.
The only durable defense is to never publish a photo of your real face in a place where it can be scraped. That's what Remasked enables — keep the social presence, replace the face.
Three layers of protection
Biometric divergence
The persona is generated to fail face-matching against your real face. Models like ArcFace and FaceNet are designed not to cluster them together.
Persona consistency
The same persona face appears in every photo. Your audience sees one consistent identity — but it isn't biometrically linked to you.
Source deletion
The photos you upload to build the persona are deleted immediately after processing. Only the persona and a face embedding are kept.
What this does and doesn't protect against
Will this remove my face from existing reverse-search indexes?
No. We only protect photos you publish from this point forward. Photos already in PimEyes/FaceCheck/etc. need to be removed via each tool's opt-out process — those are external to Remasked.
What if I post the same swapped photo on multiple platforms?
That's fine — the persona is consistent on purpose. Reverse search will cluster all your persona photos together, but none of them link back to your real face.
Does this protect me from facial recognition at airports, banks, or other physical-world systems?
No. This is a digital privacy tool for online photos only. Physical-world face recognition uses live cameras and is unrelated to what you publish online.
What about contextual deanonymization — same room, same outfit, same friends?
Face replacement doesn't change context. If you post a photo with identifiable surroundings (your car's plate, a unique tattoo, a friend's tagged face), an attacker may still link the photo to you. Remasked protects the face; the rest of the privacy hygiene is on you.