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There are now image search engines, which means that if you use the same photo of yourself on multiple online sites (e.g. FaceBook, online dating, and LinkedIn), then someone can search for all instances of your photo and piece together your personal information.
To get around this, I propose a simple
drag-and-drop utility that alters a photo in nearly invisible ways that defeat image search engines. The picture would be cropped by one pixel and brightened or dimmed very slightly in different places. Some dark colors would be replaced by other dark colors in a random way. The file name would be replaced with a string of random characters. To the naked eye, the picture would still look identical, but it could then be uploaded securely.
Thank you.
TinEye
http://www.tineye.com/
A "reverse image search" engine that won't be fooled by simple changes. [Wrongfellow, Aug 25 2012]
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The idea makes some conceptual sense, but those services can already see through watermark changes and similar. Do they use a pixel by pixel comparison, or do they use an averaging approach? |
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They extract "layers" of info from the image, analysing it as a human eye would
see it. |
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The solution is to use different photographs of yourself. Take a medium shot,
and wear a different shirt in each. |
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I hate tineye too phundug. To me the worst thing
about technologies like this is they are like "over
the counter" stalking tools.
theve become mainstream, and it creates an air of
acceptability which normalizes stalking behaviours. |
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Im beginning a grad project that hopes to resolve
similar problems to this myself. |
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Reverse image searches are now intelligent enough that
the picture would have to be drastically altered to not
show up as a match. |
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If someone bothers to search on a photo like this they need to talk to a psychiatrist about that stalking thing they have going on. |
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I have a great solution: Don't put photos of yourself online
indiscriminately. You can't go plastering your mug all over
creation then complain about stalking when somebody uses
them to track you. |
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If you like, [bob], you can put me down as co-author on
your thesis. |
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