Questo mi pare il primo vero punto di svolta nella realizzazione di una protezione preventiva della privacy visuale online da quando il riconoscimento facciale è entrato nell'ecosistema digitale. Mi vengono queste domande: - questa alterazione è rilevabile e reversibile? E' l'inizio di una arms race? - La perturbazione regge anche al passaggio analogico? Che succede se stampo la foto alterata per introdurla ad es. nel passaporto elettronico? - Chi realizzerà per primo il plugin per browser che altera i volti prima dell'upload? - Quali piattaforme offriranno questa feature a chi carica le proprie foto? Ciao, Alberto Articolo: <http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/> Paper: <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.08327.pdf> [...] The SAND Lab at University of Chicago has developed Fawkes, an algorithm and software tool (running locally on your computer) that gives individuals the ability to limit how their own images can be used to track them. At a high level, Fawkes takes your personal images and makes tiny, pixel-level changes that are invisible to the human eye, in a process we call image cloaking. You can then use these "cloaked" photos as you normally would, sharing them on social media, sending them to friends, printing them or displaying them on digital devices, the same way you would any other photo. The difference, however, 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 by humans or machines and will not cause errors in model training. However, when someone tries to identify you by presenting an unaltered, "uncloaked" image of you (e.g. a photo taken in public) to the model, the model will fail to recognize you. Fawkes has been tested extensively and proven effective in a variety of environments and is 100% effective against state-of-the-art facial recognition models (Microsoft Azure Face API, Amazon Rekognition, and Face++). We are in the process of adding more material here to explain how and why Fawkes works. For now, please see the link below to our technical paper, which will be presented at the upcoming USENIX Security Symposium, to be held on August 12 to 14. The Fawkes project is led by two PhD students at SAND Lab, Emily Wenger and Shawn Shan, with important contributions from Jiayun Zhang (SAND Lab visitor and current PhD student at UC San Diego) and Huiying Li, also a SAND Lab PhD student. The faculty advisors are SAND Lab co-directors and Neubauer Professors Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng. [...]