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The owner of Kabosu, the Shiba Inu in the famous Doge picture, puts hearts on peoples' faces. https://kabosu112.exblog.jp/22453542/

These include just strangers on the street - anyone who doesn't consent to public photos. There are thousands of lovingly censored faces in her photos.

If everyone had done this I guess the situation would be different...

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Ironically, using a neural network trained from this wide-sample dataset harvested from the public Internet, one could easily automate that process. And the result would be significantly less reliable without a wide sample of lighting conditions, genders, ethnicities, etc.

This is common in Japan. If TV reporters are taking an interview in a street, for example, they hide the faces of random people passing by because they did not consent to being on TV. They really care about privacy unlike people in other countries.

See also: Germany and Google Street View.

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