Note on privacy
Some people may aware of privacy, because you have to turn on your camera and facekit.net will capture your face and do some processing. Here we try to explain the possible privacy threats occurred by using facekit.net.
How facekit.net works
Facekit.net consists of a web interface used to customize your face recognizer and some flash programs to run your live recognizer.
The live face recognizer runs on your browser completely locally, and it does not send any information to our server (only the exception is, if you press the feedback button, it will send information containing your IP address, url, and some text variables to our server). The recognizer directly sends a recognition result by calling a javascript function defined at the user’s web page, so those information are also handled locally on your browser (but on this part there is a possible threat *see next section*).
Possible privacy threat
On using flash executable (when you browse a web page which embeds facekit.net)
As explained in the previous section, the flash executable runs completely locally on your browser, and the face information of the user will not sent to our server. But by writing a specific javascript code, it is possible for the web developer to collect face information of the user. Note that we do not provide any interface to let web developer to access actual face image, but the recognition result will be sent to the javascript function and it can be logged.
On using web interface (when you customize your own face recognizer)
On customizing your own face recognizer, you have to upload images you have prepared to our server. We do our best to protect your images, but there is still a possible threat on network attacks. We ask you to keep this risk in mind when you upload your picture to our server. When you turn your project to public, please be sure that your project does not contain any private information.