{
  "id": 10951520,
  "title": "Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/photo-scrubber-local-face-blur-metadata-removal",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-29T16:45:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/photo-scrubber/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Tool: Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal I took a photograph of some protesters, then thought about how I don't like sharing photographs of strangers with identifiable faces. I had GPT-6 Astra build this experimental tool that would identify faces and automatically blur them out. It uses Google's MediaPipe C++ library, compiled to WebAssembly via @mediapipe/tasks-vision , plus…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}