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ObscuraCam: The Privacy Camera
Open source
free
allows you to put pixels on people's faces, recognizing them automatically
unfortunately it has not been updated for some time
What we are going to present today is a very interesting application developed by Guardian Project, a collective of people dedicated to creating applications to protect their privacy online. ObscuraCam it is a really very interesting application even if, unfortunately, it has not been updated for some time.
ObscuraCam and Guardian Project
As we said the Guardian Project develops several important applications such as mythical ones Tor Browsers for Android And Orbot. Over time they have also created other less famous applications even if many of these have then been somewhat abandoned to themselves such as for example Haven or Ripple. Among the various applications created there is also the one we are talking about today, that is ObscuraCam: The Privacy Camera.
It is a very simple application and, as we have already said, unfortunately it has not been updated for a few years. However, it works very well even in the latest versions of Android, although the possibility of using it as an application for taking photographs has disappeared, probably due to API changes in the new versions of Android 1.
Pixelate faces automatically
The function of ObscuraCam it's easy to say: it will allow you to automatically insert pixels (or covering images or directly black) on people's faces. If you remember well, we have already talked in the past about a similar application called PrivacyBlur. The substantial difference is that in ObscuraCam faces are automatically recognized. Thanks to this automatic recognition it is decidedly simpler and faster to be able to cover people's faces before possibly sharing the photo.
Once you have given permission to the application to work (it also requires internet but is not mandatory, if you have a smartphone that allows you to not provide the internet connection you can also remove it) you will be able to see the photographs in your albums. Select a photograph with people and you will see that a pixel will magically appear on the face. You can decide to leave it like this, if you like, and immediately press save to make a copy. If you press on the created pixel instead you can decide whether to make it completely black, whether to pixelate everything else leaving the face intact or whether to mask the face with something else (Groucho's mask, a smiley face or a luchador).
Download ObscuraCam
If we have intrigued you and if you are not too interested in the fact that the application has not been available for a few years, we will leave you the links below to download it. We are not putting the link on the Play Store because it is still in 2017 while the last update of the application dates back to 2021.
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