[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Fawkes -- Cloak Pictures from Machine Learning and Facial Recognition

Robert Primak bobprimak at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 31 08:01:52 PDT 2020


"Fawkes: Protecting Personal Privacy against Unauthorized Deep Learning Models,"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWrI0EuYW6A&feature=emb_logo&mc_cid=6adfacb381&mc_eid=fc278575d8
This is not about defending yourself against Deep Fakes. But it is about defending yourself and your social media posts against Facial Recognition. Google in the past has used facial recognition to misuse users' faces in advertising based on web histories. But there are other implications of facial recognition in advertising, Big Data and law enforcement, as well as in employer pre-hiring and post-hiring investigations. 
https://www.dpreview.com/news/5249469104/researchers-release-free-ai-based-fawkes-image-privacy-tool-for-cloaking-faces
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/new-tool-protect-yourself-against-facial-recognition-software
Versions for Windows and Mac; binary for Linux.
-- Bob Primak

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