Today, we @playgroundAI release our first product, Anonymous Camera. Designed together with investigative journalists, it lets you anonymise photos and videos in real time, locally on device. All IAP proceeds go towards @BlackVisionsMN and @UR_Ninja. pic.twitter.com/EfU0hCxpoc
— Aaron Abentheuer (@aaronabentheuer) June 11, 2020
I’ve been playing around with this app and it works mostly as advertised. I say mostly because if you move too quickly, the blur can’t keep up. Hopefully, you’ll never have to use this app but it’s good to know it’s available. Also, if you’d like to blur photos automatically, I found a Blur Faces iOS extension. The downside of this extension is the blur doesn’t sem customizable. In my testing, I saw that I could still recognize the faces of people I knew. The other issue is the extension sends the photos off of your phone to be blurred, creating security and data integrity issues.