Signal messenger has introduced a new tool that lets users blur their faces.
With the news of NSA tapping various online services and telecom networks years ago, users have since become much more concerned about what they share online. This has naturally led them to move towards several privacy-centric apps that would not compromise on their security regardless of what a government of the day may demand.
One such app happens to be Signal Messenger which is used primarily by journalists, activists, and those in other high-risk jobs. It offers a range of security features including end-to-end encryption (hello WhatsApp), disappearing messages (hello Snapchat), no tracking, and hiding metadata along with being open source.
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Just recently, though, Signal Messenger has added another very important feature that allows users to blur images before sending them via messages on both iOS and Android. This will happen in two ways primarily:
Firstly, the app is utilizing “platform-level libraries” to automatically detect faces in a picture but this isn’t guaranteed to work every time.
The second option is to use a “blur brush” through which you can manually blur faces by drawing over them.
As for the image processing, it will be done completely inside the app so that no data is transferred to any outside server removing any possibility whatsoever of a data leak.< ..
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