With the aim of protecting people’s identities, the WhatsApp-like privacy-focused messaging platform, Signal has added yet another useful feature in its app. This feature lets a Signal user blur out people’s faces in a picture to protect them from the authorities.
So, here’s how you can use this tool in Signal:
Note: Once you tap it, the app will automatically find faces in your image and blur them. However, sometimes it might not cover all the faces in an image automatically. Well, if that happens, you can simply take your finger and draw over any uncovered face to blur it out.
- Once you are done blurring all the faces, you can save the image in your gallery and share it on any platform from there.
The Signal developers wrote, “One immediate thing seems clear: 2020 is a pretty good year to cover your face.”, and I completely agree with them. With apps like “Clearview AI”, law enforcers can easily find who you are even with a grainy image. So, in times like these, it is really a safer option to protect your identity and of those near you.
