Under GDPR, your face is biometric data — and you have the right to know where it is stored and to request its deletion. Protevio helps you discover your facial footprint and provides templates to exercise your data rights.
Discover My Face Data — FreeUnder the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), facial images used for identification are classified as biometric data — a special category receiving the highest level of protection. Any website storing photos of your face is processing your biometric data and must comply with strict legal requirements.
The problem is that most people have no idea how many websites store images of their face. Photos are scraped from social media, republished on blogs, cached in archives, and indexed by search engines — all without explicit consent. Protevio helps you discover this hidden facial footprint so you can exercise your legal rights.
Find every indexed website storing images of your face. Most people are surprised by how many sites they appear on without knowledge or consent.
Create Subject Access Request templates demanding data controllers disclose what personal data they hold about you, including facial images and biometric data.
Generate Right to Erasure (Article 17) requests for each website, demanding permanent deletion of your biometric data from their systems.
Right of Access (Article 15): You can request confirmation of whether your data is being processed and obtain a copy. Protevio helps identify who to ask by showing which websites have your face.
Right to Erasure (Article 17): The "right to be forgotten" — request deletion of your personal data when there is no compelling reason for continued processing. This applies to facial images stored without valid consent.
Right to Object (Article 21): Object to processing of your biometric data at any time. Particularly relevant for facial recognition databases indexing your face without explicit consent.
Protevio’s own compliance: We practice what we preach. Our opt-out system lets anyone submit their face for permanent removal from our index. We believe in the rights we help you exercise.
From discovery to formal data requests in three steps.
Upload your face to see which indexed websites store images of you. This is your starting point for understanding who holds your biometric data.
For each website, Protevio helps you create Subject Access Requests (Article 15) or Right to Erasure requests (Article 17) — formal legal documents demanding information or deletion.
Email the generated templates to each data controller. Under GDPR, they must respond within 30 days. Non-compliance can be reported to your national data protection authority.