Fawkes
Fawkes: Protect Your Privacy
Free, open-source tool making tiny changes to your photos before posting to prevent facial recognition on social media
What is Fawkes?
Fawkes is a free, open-source privacy protection system developed by researchers at Sandlab, a group within the Computer Science department at the University of Chicago. It helps prevent unauthorized facial recognition of you based on your online photos.
It works by making subtle changes to your photos that are imperceptible to the human eye before you post them publicly online. Specifically, it adds or alters pixels in the image that trick facial recognition systems into misidentifying you while not noticeably altering the photo appearance.
When used routinely over time, Fawkes causes your face to be recognized differently across various online platforms and facial recognition systems. This prevents companies from combining those profiles and tracking you without your consent. Fawkes helps you retain control over your biometric privacy.
The tool is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. It plugs into your existing photo sharing workflows. You can continue posting photos normally while your privacy is enhanced automatically behind the scenes without having to change your habits.
Fawkes is named after the famously difficult to recognize character in graphic novel V for Vendetta. It aims to give regular individuals that same protection from unwarranted identification and tracking of their personal lives.
Fawkes Features
Features
- Cloaks faces in images to avoid facial recognition
- Open source and free to use
- Works on major social media sites
- Makes minimal changes to images
Pricing
- Open Source
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