Horus: Streamlining blurring and GDPR compliance for mobile mapping applications

Challenge

Privacy regulations around the world, like GDPR, LGPD, PDPB & CCPA, require that personal information (e.g., faces and license plates) must be anonymized when processing street-level imagery data.

To fulfill these regulatory and market-driven requirements, Horus needed to decide whether:

1. developing this in-house or integrating a third-party solution
2. running the process on the cloud or on-premise.

After an internal evaluation, Horus decided that integrating a third-party vendor for image anonymization is a cost-effective, efficient, and high-quality solution for its clients.

Considering the massive amounts of imagery data, a cloud-based SaaS solution was not an option for their clients due to cloud storage costs, upload bandwidth limitations, and data transfer policies in some countries. Thus, Horus opted for on-premise data processing.

Solution

Horus & Celantur worked together to launch HORISON automated blurring - a tailor-made solution built with Celantur Container, that allows Horus’ customers to anonymize street-level imagery.

Features:

• Automatically blur faces, bodies, and license plates on panoramas & planar imagery
• Deploy HORISON blurring on-premise for fast, secure, and offline post-processing
• Import and transform imagery in different formats (*.JPEG, *,PGR and *.HRS)
• Output data (including *.PGR, *. JPEG, or *.HORUS) can be used directly within your workflows like Cubemap & MultiRes

Celantur's contribution