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+# Fawkes
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+Fawkes is a privacy protection system developed by researchers at University of Chicago. For more information about the project, please refer to our project [webpage](http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/).  
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+We published an academic paper to summary our work "[Fawkes: Protecting Personal Privacy against Unauthorized Deep Learning Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.08327.pdf)" at *USENIX Security 2020*. 
+
+
+### BEFORE YOU RUN OUR CODE
+If you are a developer or researcher planning to customize and modify on our existing code. Please refer to [fawkes_dev](https://github.com/Shawn-Shan/fawkes/tree/master/fawkes_dev). 
+
+### How to protect my image
+
+
+### Citation
+```
+@inproceedings{shan2020fawkes,
+  title={Fawkes: Protecting Personal Privacy against Unauthorized Deep Learning Models},
+  author={Shan, Shawn and Wenger, Emily and Zhang, Jiayun and Li, Huiying and Zheng, Haitao and Zhao, Ben Y},
+  booktitle="Proc. of USENIX Security",
+  year={2020}
+}
+```
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