[xcambar]

> There’s several reasons you may want to hide a face:

> [...]

> * The faces of protestors who are standing up against a grotesque war

I don't know if I find this disgustingly opportunistic or a solid gesture of protest and support.

Maybe both

[ravi-delia]

Creator clearly wants the app for their own use case, but correctly identified another. It is neither.

[xcambar]

"Neither" is an option. The marketing copy indicates something else.

But that'd be the best option yes.

[Larrikin]

The privacy of others was the original use I came up with when I made this same app for my final project in Intro to iOS class in grad school way back in 2017. From my initial project proposal

>Governments and tech companies such as Facebook are now continuously scanning all photos uploaded to the internet for faces, locations, and objects, effectively removing anonymity for anybody that is in any picture. A user might want to share a picture from a protest, but other users in the background might not want it known they were there.

>I would like to make a privacy focused camera application. The application will allow the user to take a picture and then it will find the faces in the picture. The user then will have to tap on the individuals in the photo they would like to be included in the final picture. By default all the faces in the picture will be marked as discard. After the user has finished selecting the faces the final picture will be produced. The faces not selected will have an effect applied to them to obscure that person identity. The user will then have the ability to share the photo to other applications, such as Twitter.

There is a lot of code in the standard library that includes face detection, didn't even have to add any libraries and was able to do the project in the last 2 weeks of class. I ended up putting a heavy mosaic over the faces, but emojis would have been just as easy. Still preferred Android dev over iOS after it, but was impressed with the included camera features.

To me the use case seems weird that she is trying to hide her kids so she can constantly post them on Instagram, when she has full control over taking pictures of her kids and what she puts on her page.

[matt_heimer]

In addition to emojis, imagine if this had deep fake support. For the war protestor use-case imagine if everyone in the crowd having the face of Zelenskyy.

It'd be nice if this was usually built into whatever social media app people use but I wouldn't trust most social media companies to not store the original image.

A sea of mini Nickolas Cage faces in pictures of your child at a playground would entertain some people.

[rchaud]

Zelensky holding up signs for peace/ceasefire wouldn't be surprising.

We need pics of thousands in the streets with Sergei Lavrov's face. Or better yet, the warmonger in chief himself.

[InTheArena]

Virtue signaling at it's best.

(In this case, there is true virtue - but profoundly unlikely to be safely applied in the use case that exists)