DeCloak provides a de-identification service utilizing differential privacy and searchable encryption to protect personal data in various applications, including facial recognition and cloud file management. The company addresses the increasing risks of data breaches and privacy violations in the context of advanced surveillance and data analysis technologies.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
The increasing use of facial recognition and data analysis technologies raises significant concerns about data breaches and privacy violations, particularly regarding personal data stored in the cloud and used in surveillance systems. Traditional methods of data protection often struggle to balance utility and privacy, hindering the ability to perform analytics or searchable encryption on sensitive information.
Solution
DeCloak provides AI-driven privacy-enhancing technologies, offering both software and hardware solutions that protect personal data while maintaining its utility. Their core technology leverages differential privacy and searchable encryption to de-identify sensitive data, including facial information and cloud-based files. The DeCloakVision system enhances privacy in surveillance applications by obfuscating body and facial information, enabling identification without storing personal details. Similarly, DeCloakFace offers privacy-preserving facial recognition for multi-factor authentication and access control. SOE-Enterprise provides searchable and analyzable data encryption for enterprise cloud file management.
Target Audience
DeCloak's primary customers include enterprises, government agencies, and organizations in sectors such as security, healthcare, finance, and retail that require robust data protection and privacy compliance for AI-driven applications and surveillance systems.
Features
- **DeCloakVision:** Multi-modal AI image privacy enhancement for surveillance systems, enabling identity verification and tracking without storing facial data.
- **DeCloakFace:** AI-powered facial recognition system that performs de-identification to protect face data in multi-factor authentication and access control scenarios.
- **SOE-Enterprise:** Searchable and analyzable data encryption for enterprise cloud file management systems.
- **Privacy-Preserving USB (PP-Dongle):** Hardware-level data de-identification USB device.
- **Privacy-Preserving Unit (PPU):** Chip-level secure data de-identification processing for IoT devices and applications.
- Compliant with privacy regulations such as GDPR.
- Solutions can be deployed on cloud and edge computing platforms.