One system. Three starting points. Five phases.
Whether you are reviewing an archive, adding new images, or maintaining consent after publication, the same five phases keep the work connected. Pick where you enter.
Pick the one that matches your situation.
All three feed the same system. You are not locked to one path.
You already have the photos.
Connect the places where photos live. See who appears where, attach the consent records you already hold, and find what still needs review.
New photos are entering the library.
Define what the campaign or shoot is for. Gather any missing consent before publication. Keep each image tied to the people and records behind it.
Something changed after publication.
Handle withdrawals, expired consent, takedowns and access requests without starting from scratch.
Five phases, end to end.
If you're new, the setup walkthrough is the first read — it covers the first source and first Campaign every phase below assumes.
Connect your archive. Originals stay put.
Connect cloud drives, your CMS, SharePoint or S3. Ansikt reads the sources you authorise and records where each image was found. Originals stay in your systems.
- Read-only source access
- One working view across connected systems
- Source and time logged for each crawl
Fully automatic once you authorise the connector.
Match known people across photos.
The same person may appear in a staff portrait, an event gallery and a website image. Ansikt links known people across connected sources and flags uncertain matches for review.
- Confidence labels: High, Likely, Review
- Uncertain matches queue for confirmation
- Confirmed matches improve accuracy over time
Mostly automatic. Uncertain matches queue for your confirmation.
Link images to purposes and decisions.
Most photo consent starts broad: can we use photos from this event for this purpose? Ansikt keeps that path, but lets subjects make a more specific decision after seeing the image. More specific wins when an image is reviewed for use.
- Three levels: organisation · Campaign · one photo
- Subjects consent to Purposes
- No decision means review before use
You define the Purpose. Subjects decide through QR, existing records, or the portal.
Enforce decisions where images are served.
For public images you choose to serve through the Ansikt URL Proxy, the current decision can be enforced on request. If one subject denies use in a group photo, the image can still be used while that subject’s face is blurred — or automatically taken down. Your choice.
- Only images served through the proxy are enforced
- Withdrawals apply on the next request
- Origin-served images still need manual removal
Proxy enforcement is automatic once the image is served through it. Everything outside the proxy is surfaced for manual action.
Withdraw, expire, or export. With a full audit trail.
When a subject withdraws, consent expires, or a data subject asks where their images are used, Ansikt gives you a working view of affected images and the decisions behind them.
- Search by reference photo or person record
- Export the answer or proof of action
- Audit trail on search, export, and takedown
Ansikt narrows the work. Your DPO or editor still owns the decision.
Who holds what.
You stay the controller. Ansikt works on the records and image references you authorise.
- Original images in your DAM, CMS, drives, or SharePoint
- Source consent records you already hold
- The lawful basis for each use
- Final decisions on publication, removal, and access requests
- Working view of connected images, people, consent, and review status
- Consent records and subject decisions added to Ansikt
- Links between known people and their appearances
- Audit log, publication records, and export history
Follow the work from here.
Every source Ansikt can read.
Cloud drives, CMS, S3, network drives, public websites. All read-only.
What Ansikt detects, groups, and audits.
Recognition, confidence labels, search, review queues, and DSAR export.
Article 15 and 17, mapped step by step.
How Ansikt maps to the law, and where the law leaves you on your own.