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In response to "What is the official name of the black bar placed over faces to hide identity in published photos?" by zeitgeist

Found it!

Alternative techniques

For many censorship purposes, pixelization has been supplanted by blurring the image, or black rectangular or square boxes (known as censor bars) may be used to cover parts of images completely (for example, a black box inserted over the eyes rather than pixelization of the entire face).


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