A New App Automatically Sends That Group Photo To Your Friends

Once you take a photo, the Knoto app finds the faces in the image, crops them out, and sends them to the encrypted Knoto server. There, the faces are matched to other known faces, and this data of the person's identity is transmitted back to your phone. The photos are then sent and received by the Knoto app, which ends up being a stream of photos of yourself and your friends or family. If the person being sent the photos doesn't have the app, they get a text with an image and a link to download other photos. In terms of privacy, Lee says that by cropping the photos to only include faces and transmitting those cropped images eliminates a lot of concerns.