Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...

Blur tools for Signal: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people’s biometric face data.

You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly.

  • ngons
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    11 months ago

    Depends on how the blur is implemented…

    • milicent_bystandr
      10·
      11 months ago

      I remember something like this on the Underhanded C Contest.

      (It was for blacking out parts of an image.)

  • Extras
    00·
    11 months ago

    Always heard blurring was ineffective and that solid colored boxes should be used instead

    • SzymonEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      I recall a story of a pedophile being caught because they posted pictures using a radial warp on the face. It wasn’t too hard for enforcement to code a filter that undoes the radial warp, and instantly saw the original photo to identify and lock away the creep.