Public face search engine PimEyes will halt its biometric search capabilities for minors, The New York Times reports. The ban is part of the company's "no harm policy," according to PimEyes CEO Giorgi Gobronidze, who added 200 accounts were previously deleted for inappropriate searches for minors in the database of nearly 3 billion faces.
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