Facial recognition can be as scary as it is useful, but Tel Aviv startup D-ID aims to make it considerably harder for unauthorized others to use our personal photos for facial recognition matching. What D-ID claims to do is to distort photographed faces in such a way that leaves them looking unaltered to the human eye yet unrecognizable to facial recognition algorithms. D-ID recently completed a $4million Seed Round led by Pitango Venture Capital with support from Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Fenox Venture Capital, Maverick Ventures and ‘two notable angel investors.’The company is currently keeping its cards close to its chest: there are no example images provided at this stage. If the technology works as advertised, it could become a powerful tool in the ongoing fight against identity theft. Incorporating D-ID’s algorithms into smartphone cameras and social networks would make posting personally identifiable images online a lot safer.

Source: Forbes January 29, 2018 16:18 UTC