Visual privacy
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Visual privacy describes the relationship between collection and dissemination of visual information, the expectation of privacy, and the legal issues surrounding them. These days cameras are ubiquitous. They are found in billons of electronic devices, ranging from smartphones to tablets, and laptops to surveillance cams in homes, business, and public.
Visual privacy describes the relationship between collection and dissemination of visual information, the expectation of privacy, and the legal issues surrounding them. These days cameras are ubiquitous. They are found in billons of electronic devices, ranging from smartphones to tablets, and laptops to surveillance cams in homes, business, and public.
Technologies enhancing visual privacy
Different technologies can preserve privacy while providing information from surveillance networks. Most of these solutions rely upon the target application to operate in a privacy-preserving manner: "Respectful Cameras" automatically obscure the faces of observed people. Google Streetview uses automatic face detection to blur faces. Eptascape has a product that provides privacy-enabled surveillance. Cardea is a context-aware visual privacy protection mechanism that protects bystanders' visual privacy in photos according to their context-dependent privacy preferences. Thermal and depth cameras are used in person detection and people counting. Privacy-preserving lens design consists of the joint optimization of optics and algorithms to perform vision tasks like human pose estimation and action recognition. Edge computing: various applications enhance user privacy by keeping visual and other data on personal devices rather than sending to a server for processing. The latter increases the "surface", creating more chances for allowing others access to sensitive private data by service providers and/or malware.
See also
Mass surveillance
References
External links
Unblinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century
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