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Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)


Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text Undoubtedly you have all seen photographs of people on TV and online who have been blurred to hide faces. For example, here's one of Bill Gates: Adapted from the Wikimedia Commons For the most part this is all fine with peoples' faces as there isn't a convenient way to reverse the blur back into a photo so detailed that you can recognise the photo.

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