fawkes
A privacy protection tool that adds imperceptible pixel-level changes to photos to prevent unauthorized facial recognition.
What is fawkes?
Fawkes is a privacy protection tool that adds subtle, imperceptible pixel-level changes to personal photos to prevent unauthorized facial recognition systems from learning and identifying individuals. It addresses the growing concern of personal photos being scraped and used to train facial recognition models without consent. The tool provides different protection modes to balance privacy strength with visual fidelity.
Individuals concerned about online privacy, researchers studying privacy-preserving technologies, and organizations needing to protect biometric data from unauthorized AI training.
Fawkes offers a practical, research-backed solution for proactive privacy protection against facial recognition systems, with multiple protection levels and batch processing capabilities. Unlike simple image obfuscation, it uses targeted perturbations that preserve image quality while disrupting AI model training.
Overview
Fawkes, privacy preserving tool against facial recognition systems. More info at https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes
Use Cases
Best For
- Protecting personal photos before sharing them on social media
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