• Freeware Spotlight — Fawkes

    Posted on August 30, 2020 at 21:00 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

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    By Deanna McElveen

    Here’s a little experiment that’s both interesting and terrifying.

    Google “facebook facial recognition” or simply “facial recognition.” Those of us who’ve been around a while have been warned about transgressions of this particular technology in … oh … a dozen or more movies!

    But we can fight back in our own small way, and it won’t cost us a dime — or a bitcoin!

    The University of Chicago’s Security, Algorithms, Networks and Data (SAND) lab has created an amazing anti-facial-recognition program appropriately called Fawkes (as in Guy Fawkes). The app is designed to modify common images in order to defeat unauthorized facial-recognition (FR) activities.

    Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.34.0 (2020-08-31).

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