It's a consumer-facing photo editing app that uses adversarial AI to manipulate your photos in such a way that companies like Clearview AI can't train facial recognition algorithms off your data. You can download the Android or iOS version at trix.co - we're in beta right now.
Would love to get anyone's feedback!
How does collecting personal data improve security? Why is identity verification needed when the point of using the service is to avoid automated identification in the first place?
After reading your policy and tos i think someone should check the app for facebook scraping, because the legal texts sure imply you are doing that:
> "By granting Trix access to any Third-Party Accounts, you understand that Trix may access, .. any information .. that you have provided to and stored in such Third-Party Account (“SNS Content”) ... all SNS Content shall be considered to be your User Content"
Some great advice from the privacy policy:
> "You should always review, and if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites and services before linking or connecting them to Trix’s websites or Service."
Statements like this are red flags:
> "We may collect metadata associated with User Content. Metadata typically consists of how, when, where and by whom a piece of User Content was collected and how that content has been formatted."
> "Trix may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information, to affiliated entities, or to other third parties" ... "for the purpose of providing the Service"
This is a typical blank.
Basically they reserve the right to do as they please with your data and all data they can access through services you link with their service.
we absolutely do not (and would not) scrape data from your social media accounts. unfortunately, terms like this are standard for many tech companies today.
What i find most interesting is the metadata piece. Photos often have time and location information attached (exif), especially if your service sits close to the camera.
You reserve the right to harvest those. Why? (It's a rhetoric question: the answer is of course: the lawyer said such wording protects you from getting sued)
I am not sure technology can solve this completely.
Our technology is simply indexed to a public data-set of 30k individuals and when our deep learning model scrambles the key-points on your photos to confuse the clearviews of the world it does in a random manner. The model truly is a black box in that way.
And do you tell your customers that their photos, after you have edited them, might not be safe from future versions of AI?
"Adversarial AI" doesn't really work against systems like Clearview that aren't using "AI" in the first place.
This isn't entirely clear to me. Are you saying something to the effect of, "While historical images would indeed be compromised, there is value in at least the current images not being compromised"?
I see what you’re asking and I share those concerns. This approach seems like it would only stop casual attempts, not determined large scale automated bulk collection, yet it is pitched as if it’s effective or could be improved to be effective. I would expect that its usage would be able to be detected in a photo even if it works, which would itself be meaningful information which could be tracked, like DNT in web browsers.