How to hide faces and scrub metadata when you photograph a protest
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Summary
Numerous people attending protests may not want their or other participants’ identities to be known, so obscuring faces in any images posted online has become the norm
There are various ways to achieve this on mobile devices, including third-party apps that can blur or cover faces and strip images of metadata
For iOS users, built-in photo editors can be used to individually block out faces, while screenshots can be used to prevent GPS location, timestamps and other metadata being attached to images
Android users can use the native markup tool to obscure faces, while some devices also offer a Magic Eraser tool for the same purpose
Third-party apps that can be used to hide faces and remove metadata include Signal, Image Scrubber, Glitche, Glitch Lab, Trigraphy, Halide and Snapseed