How teams use Ansikt
See how Legal, HR, Marketing, and IT departments solve real compliance challenges with face recognition technology.
HR Offboarding
Employee departure workflows
Scenario
A long-term employee has given notice and requested that all their photos be removed from company systems before their departure date. HR needs to ensure compliance while maintaining positive relations with the departing employee.
Challenge
Employee photos are scattered across the intranet, training materials, company blog posts, social media, event galleries, and SharePoint folders. HR has no systematic way to locate every instance, and manually checking every system would take weeks—far exceeding the employee's remaining time.
Solution
HR uploads the employee's portrait to Ansikt. Within seconds, the system identifies every photo containing that person across all connected sources—website, SharePoint, social media archives, and event galleries.
- Complete list of all photos with precise locations
- Direct links to each photo for immediate action
- Audit trail showing the search was comprehensive
Outcome
HR identifies 47 photos across 6 different systems in under 30 seconds. All photos are removed or anonymized before the employee's last day. The departing employee leaves with confidence that their privacy was respected, and HR has documented proof of compliance.
"Before Ansikt, we had to rely on manual searches and hoping we didn't miss anything. Now we can give departing employees a complete, documented response within minutes. It's transformed how we handle offboarding."
Maria Hansen
Head of HR, Nordic Manufacturing
Scenario
The marketing team is preparing a new campaign using customer testimonials and user-generated content. Before publishing, they need to verify that every person appearing in the photos has given explicit consent for this specific use.
Challenge
The marketing asset library contains thousands of photos collected over years. Many photos show multiple people—some have signed consent forms, others haven't. Manually reviewing every photo to identify who appears in them would take weeks and delay the campaign launch.
Solution
Marketing uses Ansikt to scan their entire asset library. The system automatically identifies all unique individuals across the photos and creates a person inventory. For each photo, they can instantly see who appears in it and cross-reference with their consent database.
- Complete person inventory from existing photos
- Instant identification of photos lacking consent
- Filter photos by consent status before publication
Outcome
Marketing identifies 23 photos in their campaign assets that include people without proper consent. These are replaced with compliant alternatives. The campaign launches on schedule with zero legal risk, and the team establishes an ongoing process to verify consent before any new photos are published.
"We used to publish and pray. Now we know with certainty that every person in our marketing materials has given consent. Ansikt gives us the confidence to move fast without cutting corners on compliance."
Jonas Kristensen
Marketing Director, TechScale
Marketing
Content compliance and consent verification
Legal
Audit preparation and DSAR responses
Scenario
The legal team receives a detailed Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) from a former customer: "Provide all photos you have of me from the past 3 years, including events, marketing materials, and internal presentations." Day 1 of 30 begins.
Challenge
The organization has photos scattered across 12 different systems: website CMS, SharePoint, Google Drive, AWS S3, event management platforms, email archives, and old backup drives. Manual searches would take weeks and still risk missing photos. The regulatory deadline is non-negotiable, and incomplete responses carry significant penalties.
Solution
Legal uploads the requester's photo to Ansikt. The system searches across all connected sources—current and historical—and returns every instance where this person appears. Results include photo thumbnails, source locations, capture dates, and contextual information.
- Comprehensive search across all systems in seconds
- Detailed report with photo locations and timestamps
- Audit trail proving comprehensive search
- Export-ready documentation for regulatory submission
Outcome
Legal provides a complete response on Day 3 instead of Day 28. The report documents 127 photos across 8 systems, including archived content that would have been missed by manual searches. The regulator accepts the response as compliant, and the organization avoids penalties while demonstrating exemplary data governance.
"Ansikt turns what used to be a compliance nightmare into a routine task. We can now respond to DSARs with complete confidence, knowing we haven't missed anything. The auditors were impressed with our documentation and response speed."
Lars Pedersen
General Counsel, Financial Services Group
Scenario
The IT department needs to implement a face recognition solution for GDPR compliance. They're evaluating vendors and need a system that's secure, EU-hosted, doesn't share data with third parties, and integrates with their existing infrastructure.
Challenge
Most face recognition solutions send data to US-based cloud providers or require complex integrations with proprietary APIs. The legal team has strict requirements: no data leaving the EU, no third-party processing, complete audit logs, and the ability to export or delete all data on demand. Finding a solution that meets these requirements while being maintainable seems impossible.
Solution
Ansikt is deployed entirely within the organization's EU infrastructure. All face recognition processing happens on-premises or in EU-only cloud regions. No data is shared with third parties. The system integrates seamlessly with existing storage systems and provides complete API access for automation.
- 100% EU-hosted with no data transfers outside the EU
- No third-party AI services or external dependencies
- REST API for integration with existing workflows
- Complete audit logging for compliance reporting
- Automated crawlers for continuous monitoring
Outcome
IT deploys Ansikt in a single day with standard Docker containers. The system connects to existing S3 buckets, SharePoint sites, and website CMS without custom development. Automated crawlers continuously monitor for new photos, and the legal team receives real-time alerts for potential compliance issues. Maintenance is minimal, and the system scales to handle millions of photos without performance degradation.
"Finally, a face recognition solution that doesn't require us to compromise on security. Everything stays in our infrastructure, legal is happy, and we got it running in hours, not months. The API makes it easy to integrate with our existing compliance workflows."
Søren Nielsen
CTO, Healthcare Solutions
IT
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