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Life & fun · July 24, 2020

Fawkes

Image cloaking for personal privacy

Fawkes launched on July 24, 2020 with 118 votes, #305 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

"At a high level, Fawkes takes your personal images, and makes tiny, pixel-level changes to them that are invisible to the human eye, in a process we call image cloaking." was popular on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917337

Shawn Shan † , PhD Student Emily Wenger † , PhD Student Jiayun Zhang , Visiting Student Huiying Li , PhD Student Haitao Zheng , Professor Ben Y. Zhao , Professor † Project co-leaders and co-first authors News : May 12, 2022. Sorry for the delays. The Fawkes team has been busy with much research, but finally produced an initial prototype of Fawkes for the Macbook M1 chip. Please see below for the download link. It is significantly faster than the Intel version (both due to just hardware speedup and the fact we can now leverage some of the GPU capacity on the M1). News : Jan 28, 2021. It has recently come to our attention that there was a significant change made to the…from sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu

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