Security News > 2020 > July > Fawkes: Digital Image Cloaking

Fawkes is a system for manipulating digital images so that they aren't recognized by facial recognition systems.

At a high level, Fawkes takes your personal images, and makes tiny, pixel-level changes to them that are invisible to the human eye, in a process we call image cloaking.

The difference is that if and when someone tries to use these photos to build a facial recognition model, "Cloaked" images will teach the model an highly distorted version of what makes you look like you.

The cloak effect is not easily detectable, and will not cause errors in model training.

When someone tries to identify you using an unaltered image of you, and tries to identify you, they will fail.

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/07/fawkes_digital_.html