Face detection blurring; a necessary tool
Your word is your bond and your face is your brand, yet by walking around your own establishment and getting filmed you are risking both; why? No video face blurring! You bought a security system to help increase security but it is a great way for cyber-criminals, including your competitors to see what you are up to. If your intellectual property is not cutting it any more in the market, then this could be the reason. Importantly you need to secure the integrity of the business from deformation with one way of doing this through AI face detection blurring. If you are doing sensitive business with clients, the last thing you need is a ‘leaked’ video of staff and client engaging in a filmed dialog getting out onto public sites or back to the client themselves; your business would be dead-on-arrival.
An example of ongoing issues
Only a few years a go there was a big fiasco due to companies such as nuclear power plants and intellectual property generating companies being hacked and their details sold on the deep web. Every sector had a camera breach with the main issue being with IoT devices. These remote connected devices were great for installation and setup, however due to having to be designed and sold in a competitive market all used a basic lightweight Linux distribution with default passwords used for maintenance and patching. The problem was that even after the problem had been pointed out in the industry not much in terms of patching could be done unless the client contacted the company. Furthermore, the industry needed to sell more products and just ignored the situation. It was so bad that you could log into sites such a Shodan a web scraping site, find your company and connect to these cameras by selecting an open server port. This led to many resignations and firings in many information technologies circles as well as upper management as well as litigation from video face blurring not being utilized in such systems.
Face detection blurring saving your business!
For some companies this is still a challenge due to not being aware of the current issue with such systems; that’s right you can still to this day find companies that have no protection from being watched. For this reason alone, face detection blurring is needed by all to ensure that at least staff and clients cannot be identified and exploited by cyber-criminals should a breach occur. You will likely have an exposed surface somewhere to gain access to your company and you, stopping them getting your face helps reduce backlash from clients and staff seen doing business later.
It’s not just your security cameras
Any corporate media that you produce such as videos, photos or live streams must blur out staff according to GDPR and CCPA privacy regulations. While this sounds like a major headache it doesn’t have to be, unlike as recently as a decade ago when video face blurring was done manually through editing media and no control over security cameras. These relatively new regulations have been created to protect privacy in line with technological advancements. The great news is that you can use software as a service (SaaS) or onsite AI video face blurring options to comply to regulations and get your company out of a potential legal bind while maintaining the integrity of the company, with little cost or effort required. For media releases all you need to do in upload your video, toggle some settings and get back a compliant video, while security camera video face blurring software just needs to be installed and you’re done.
