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"I personally think that no matter which approach you use, you lose," said Emily Wenger, a Ph.D. student who helped create Fawkes. "You can have these technological solutions, but it's a cat-and-mouse game. And you can have a law, but there will always be illegal actors." Ms. Wenger thinks "a two-prong approach" is needed, where individuals have technological tools and a privacy law to protect themselves. Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, has written about tools like Fawkes as "privacy protests," where individuals want to thwart surveillance but not for criminal reasons.