Aten Labs

TinEye is a great service that you can use to search for similar photos on the web. You provide a photo and it compares it to its database looking for similar and modified images.

You can use TinEye to quickly spot fake accounts on social networking sites.

For example. I received this LinkedIn network request the other day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not only have I never worked with a “Jennifer Gray”, her profile photo looks like it may be a stock photo. TinEye returned 4 results for stock photography.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks like this account may be a recruiting bot or something.

 

TinEye can also be used to verify the authenticity of a photo and to see if it is a repost or duplicate of another photo. It even has Firefox and Chrome plugins!

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