Top 8 AI-Powered Privacy Tools To Fool Facial Recognition Systems

Facial recognition is one of the most controversial forms of AI. People, communities, and many activist groups have raised concerns against this technology because it jeopardises privacy and compromises an individual's security. While governments of different countries have placed mild to strict restrictions on such tech, there still seems to be a lot of scepticism and fear around. This has given rise to the development of several AI-powered privacy tools that help'fool' facial recognition technology. We have listed some of the most prominent ones. Developed at the University of Chicago's Sand lab, Fawkes very subtly alters photographs at a pixel level to trick facial recognition systems.