Protecting Our Facial Images

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Protecting Our Facial Images

• Learn TO PROTECT your Facial IMAGE

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Protecting Our Facial Images

• If there is a silver lining to the FaceApp
  scandal, its that weve all learned
  definitively our faces are targets.

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Protecting Our Facial Images

• This week, prominent politicians and major
  news outlets picked up on the emerging FaceApp
  scandal the latest in a string of incidents in
  which facial images were scraped, collected and
  analyzed without consent. The vocal calls for
  congressional investigations and warnings of
  national security violations brought home what
  security professionals and facial recognition
  experts have been saying all along our faces are
  compromised.

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Protecting Our Facial Images

• Its not a new story. In May of this year,
  it was Ever app the photo storage service that
  was using its users photos to train facial
  recognition software and then selling them to law
  enforcement. Before that, IBM was discovered to
  have been using Flickr photos to train facial
  recognition applications without permission from
  those in the photos.

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Protecting Our Facial Images

• So, What Can We Do?
• Faces cant be changed, except by plastic
  surgery that most of us would prefer to avoid.
  But the images of our faces can be protected from
  misuse which is the key to continuing and
  effective use of facial recognition for access
  control.
• We can protect our facial images by making
  them unrecognizable to facial recognition
  software, while still keeping them similar to
  human eyes. And were not talking about the
  brute force methods of the past blurring,
  pixelation or face swapping. Advanced technology
  can create a new, unique, unrecognizable photo of
  yourself which looks the same, yet does not have
  your faceprint those key features that
  AI-based face recognition tools look for to
  determine who you are.

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Protecting Our Facial Images

• D-ID enhances privacy by removing
  unnecessary sensitive biometric data from facial
  images. Completely seamless and transparent, a
  D-ID protected photo looks no different to the
  human eye. Yet D-ID photos cannot be decrypted or
  reverse-engineered outsmarting even the most
  advanced facial recognition engines. This means
  that facial recognition software cannot match a
  D-ID-protected photo to any identity whether
  its the bad guys or the good guys trying to do
  so.
• But now we know the risk, and now we know
  the way to reduce it.