Thankfully, the team also describes how to defeat their own algorithms by designing more secure watermarks which are much more difficult to remove. A tactic which has recently been employed by stock photography site, Shutterstock, to protect its images. The vulnerability occurs when several different images are protected by an identical watermark, such as might occur on a stock photography site. So how can you make your watermarks secure? Unfortunately, the Google team didn’t offer an automated process for generating these secure, ‘warped’ watermarks.

Source: Forbes August 28, 2017 23:26 UTC