Managing Persons

A “person” in BrightBlur represents an individual whose face you want to protect — a friend, a family member, a colleague, or yourself.

How persons work

Each person has their own encryption keys, separate from any circle. When you tag a face as “Alice”, that face slice is encrypted so that only Alice’s controllers can see it. Controllers are typically the person themselves (if they have an account) or whoever manages their privacy.

Creating a person

You can create a person in two ways:

• From the People page — tap Create Person and enter their name.
• During upload — when tagging a face, tap Create new person inline without leaving the upload flow.

Your own person record is created automatically when you set up your account.

Merging persons

If you accidentally create two person records for the same individual (e.g. “Alice” and “alice”), you can merge them:

1. Go to the People page.
2. Select the two persons you want to merge.
3. Tap Merge.

All face data, embeddings, and permissions are consolidated into a single record. This also triggers a key rotation to ensure the merged person’s data is properly secured.