July 9, 2025

CSEM develops vision systems that “Forgets Your Face” – Protecting privacy in the age of surveillance

  • New AI training method enables monitoring tasks without learning or storing personal data
  • Tested on facial and medical images, the system improved performance by up to 6.7% while blocking identity inference
  • Fully compliant with Switzerland’s strict data protection laws—ready for real-world deployment
Visual in 3 pictures to illustrate how AI can protect privacy
© CSEM - Figure demonstrating the potential of CSEM’s approach. The reconstruction using an adversarial network shows impressive results in privacy preservation compared to the baseline network.