The app was created at a time when services like Clearview AI presented a major privacy problem. The facial recognition system had collected over three billion photos of people by scraping the internet and social media. As Sand Labs explained, Clearview built facial recognition models for millions of people without obtaining permission. Fawkes allows users to hide in plain sight by making it harder for facial recognition apps to match the Fawkes camouflaged photos to the images in their databa
