On-device protection
Lock My Photos from AI
Secure your images by wiping hidden tracking data and blocking AI face-stealers locally.
How it works
Lock My Photos from AI
Secure your images by wiping hidden tracking data and blocking AI face-stealers locally.
Secure your images by wiping hidden tracking data and blocking AI face-stealers locally.
Drag & drop your photo into the safe box.
Click 'Apply Protection' to clean metadata.
Download your secured photo safely.
Nothing leaves your device.
Instantly strips EXIF, GPS, and Camera metadata locally.
Re-encoding through the browser canvas removes embedded EXIF and GPS metadata. A subtle AI-Shield layer is added to discourage automated scraping and deepfake training.
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The subtle AI-Shield layer protects your facial features from background web scrapers and deepfake generators while preserving your image's quality.
About Lock My Photos from AI
What it does
This in-browser tool strips every piece of EXIF metadata from your photo — GPS coordinates, camera serial number, timestamps, software fingerprints — and applies a subtle adversarial 'AI-shield' overlay designed to disrupt the facial-recognition and generative-model pipelines that scraper bots rely on.
Why privacy matters here
Modern AI face-cloning models like the ones behind deepfake intimate imagery learn from clean, high-resolution, metadata-rich photos. Removing the metadata makes the photo harder to track across the web; the perturbation overlay degrades the photo's usefulness for model training while remaining nearly invisible to the human eye. Together, they raise the cost of abuse without changing how your photo looks to friends and family.
How it helps victims of deepfake abuse
Survivors who must keep a public profile — creators, journalists, public-facing professionals — process every new photo through this tool before posting. People rebuilding after an abuse incident batch-process their archive to ensure that no future scrape can connect a clean training image to their identity. Because the protection happens locally, no protected photo is ever uploaded back to us.
Frequently asked questions
- Does the AI-shield make my photo look different?
- The visible difference is minimal — most viewers cannot tell. The perturbation is engineered to be highly disruptive to neural-network feature extractors while being almost invisible to human perception.
- Is metadata stripping enough on its own?
- Metadata stripping defeats geolocation and device fingerprinting. Combined with the AI-shield overlay, it also reduces the photo's value as AI training data. For maximum safety, use both layers together.
- Can platforms still recompress my photo?
- Yes — some platforms recompress images, which can weaken the AI-shield. For sensitive accounts, also generate a digital-proof hash beforehand so you can prove the original was protected.
- Does this tool guarantee my photo can never be deepfaked?
- No tool can offer that guarantee. This significantly raises the cost and lowers the quality of any abusive AI output trained on your image — an important layer in a defence-in-depth strategy.