--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "023d364db8b33fc2047dcacf039e41cafd6ea5083fc575ca4587d06d5f7e1c1b" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/023d364d?lang=en" title: "Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-09-29T16:45:27.000Z" category: "Products" topics: ["google","safety"] source_urls: ["https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/photo-scrubber/"] summary: "Tool: Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal I took a photograph of some protesters, then thought about how I don't like sharing photographs of strangers with identifiable faces. I had GPT-6 Astra build this experimental tool that would identify faces and automatically blur them out. It uses Google's MediaPipe C++ library, compiled to WebAssembly via @mediapipe/tasks-vision , plus the BlazeFace face detection model. Tags: photography , tools" --- # Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-09-29T16:45:27.000Z **Category:** Products **Topics:** google, safety ## Summary Tool: Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal I took a photograph of some protesters, then thought about how I don't like sharing photographs of strangers with identifiable faces\. I had GPT\-6 Astra build this experimental tool that would identify faces and automatically blur them out\. It uses Google's MediaPipe C\+\+ library, compiled to WebAssembly via @mediapipe/tasks\-vision , plus the BlazeFace face detection model\. Tags: photography , tools ## Sources - [Story source]()