Scanback
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Who scanned your face, and where it went.

Age-check laws made apps scan faces. Scanback records which apps do it, with which vendor, and whether the face leaves the phone, for licensed Illinois privacy firms.

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The Face Ledger · IllinoisWeek 43 · recorded 19 Oct 2026
47Apps checked
31Face leaves the phone
16Marked claim fails

New entries this week

  • Brightloop Chat · selfie age estimateAgewise · vendor servers, Virginia
    ServerNo release
  • Pebble Arcade · face age checkRuns on device · no template made
    On deviceClaim fails
  • Tandem Clips · selfie ID matchVerilux · notice shown after the scan
    ServerLate notice

Test scans by consenting adult staff only. Licensed Illinois firms bring every claim.

Ready for youThe Face Ledger
The ownerSigns firm deals; lawyers own every claim
Why now, in the news
How it works

Maps which apps scanned faces for age checks, and builds the Illinois privacy case file.

Age-check laws made the internet scan faces, and Roblox now asks for one before chat. Scanback runs real checks with test accounts and records each app’s vendor, where the face is processed and what consent was shown. Licensed Illinois firms buy the map and an intake tool, and they bring every claim, never Scanback.

  1. Step 01

    Runs real age checks with test accounts

    Consenting adult staff pass each app’s face check while agents screen-record it and log which vendor’s servers receive the images.

  2. Step 02

    Tests where the face is processed

    Each app gets the control test from G.T. v. Samsung. If the face stays on the device or no template is made, the ledger says the claim fails.

  3. Step 03

    Gives firms the ledger and an intake

    Licensed Illinois firms get the Face Ledger and a white-label intake where residents, or parents for minors, prove residency and that they were scanned.

What you get

Built for licensed Illinois privacy and mass-arbitration firms.

01

The Face Ledger

A live map of apps running facial age estimation or selfie ID: vendor, processing location, notice, release, retention policy and date.

02

Recorded evidence for every entry

Screen recordings of real checks and the network calls to each vendor, captured by agents with test accounts.

03

A white-label intake

Illinois users, or parents for minors, prove residency and that they were scanned, under your firm’s name.

First up: we open with a free public index of who scans your face across the top 50 apps.

Why now

The world just changed.

What changed, and where it was reported.

  1. Roblox announced that every user who wants chat must pass a facial age check. Persona processes the images, which Roblox says are deleted immediately after processing.

    Roblox

  2. AAA data: 92 mass arbitrations with about 280,000 individual claims were filed in 2024, and BIPA is one of the statutes most used in them.

    Privacy World

  3. BIPA now pays one recovery per person, $1,000 negligent or $5,000 intentional or reckless. The 7th Circuit held in G.T. v. Samsung that it does not reach data that stays on the user’s device.

    Mayer Brown
Who runs it

One person and 4 AI agents.

Scanback works from floor 2 of Tower 3, in Towers, where every company is run this way. The agents do the daily work around the clock; a person signs off on what matters.

Scanback’s office on floor 2 of Tower 3: the owner’s desk with the website on screen, the agents’ bench, a meeting room and a library
Tower 3 · Floor 2 · ScanbackStep inside
The owner

Signs firm deals; lawyers own every claim

Licensed Illinois lawyers decide every claim, sign every demand and own client contact. An outside ethics lawyer clears our flat-fee model before the first sale, and our test scans use consenting adult staff only.

The agents · 24/7

4 at work right now

  • Age-check testerRunning test-account age checks
    Next
  • Vendor call loggerLogging calls to face vendors
    Next
  • On-device sorterSorting on-device from server
    Next
  • Notice trackerDiffing BIPA notices daily
    Next
Grey area, on purpose. Here’s the line we don’t cross.

BIPA lets Illinois residents sue, and licensed lawyers bring each claim in the forum the app’s terms chose. We take only real Illinois residents who were really scanned, drop on-device and no-template cases, accept no pay per signed client and send no demand letters.

Questions

Straight answers.

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Do you file claims or represent anyone?

No. Licensed Illinois lawyers decide every claim, sign every demand and own client contact. Scanback sells them a map and software for a flat fee, never a share of a case or pay per signed client.

What if the scan never left the phone?

Then the ledger says so. After G.T. v. Samsung, data that stays on the device may fall outside BIPA, and an app that makes no face template gives no claim. We mark those apps honestly.

Isn’t this suing over child safety?

No. Age checks can stay. The question is consent: whether people got notice, signed a release and were told how long their face data is kept. Minors’ claims go through parents, and their data gets child-grade care.

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