Eli5: why does blurring someones eyes in photographs blurs their identity?

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Eli5: why does blurring someones eyes in photographs blurs their identity?

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It doesn’t; not necessarily. If I showed you a picture of Barack Obama with the eyes blurred you would still recognize him. But, eye shape is one of the key things that people use to recognize faces, so it’s better than nothing if the intention is to just make somebody less recognizable.

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